perverseness

Are those who have been disappointed in their first choice, whether from the inconstancy of its object, or the perverseness of circumstances, to be equally indifferent during the rest of their lives?

难道凡是第一次选择失当的人，无论因为对象朝三暮四，还是因为情况违逆多舛，就该一辈子漠然处之？

The integrity of the upright shall guide them : but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

正直人的纯正,必引导自己.奸诈人的 乖僻,必毁灭自己.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is spirit.

说安慰话的舌头是生命树;奸恶的舌头使人心碎.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness spirit.

温良的舌是生命树, 乖谬的嘴使人心碎.

and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.

她又回想了一下他们整个一段交情，真是矛盾百出，千变万化，她以前曾经巴不得断绝这一段交情，如今却又希望能继续下去，想到这种颠三倒四的地方，不由得叹了口气。