If you kid, you make fun in a playful way. Teasing can be playful or mean spirited. It depends.

如果你开玩笑，你用有趣的方式来取乐。戏弄可以是有趣的，也可能是卑鄙的，视情况而定。

They sent him to what turned out to be a crippling, mean spirited English prep school at the age of eight.

八岁时， 他们把他送到了一所残废、卑鄙的英语预科学校。

And it was such a power trip and so bizarre and so mean spirited, like we know how to pitch something because we're in the business and we see it all the time.

这是一次如此权力的旅行，如此奇怪，如此卑鄙，就像我们知道如何推销一些东西，因为我们在这个行业，我们一直看到它。