It is not always clear that eating something as harmless as wheat can be bad for a person's health.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

The financial situation is not as bad as it was in the 1930s but it's getting bad and as a result we're starting to see proposals for big change.

现在的金融衍生工具已经不像当年那么拙劣了,但是它却开始走下坡路,所以最后的结果是,我们不得不准备着新的变革。

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Harry is a little bit of a bad boy, not really as clever, maybe.

哈里是一个有点坏的男孩，可能并不是很聪明。

皇室的绯闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Not bad after just eleven years as a party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Someone might also say, you know a little inequality, even a substantial inequality, is not so bad as long as nobody is really suffering.

有些人也可能会说，微小的贫富差距，甚至显著的贫富差距存在，只要没人觉得痛苦就行了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She says writers in Tunisia are not as bad off as the syndicate believes.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

You could take that as good news or bad news but the spotlight is not on us as much as we think it is.

你可以这把当成好消息，也可以当成坏消息,但聚光灯并不像我们想的那样，总是照在我们身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We're probably,it looks now, like we'll continue to bump along maybe even have some bad months and unemployment is not going to recover as it has in some past recessions."

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Life as a waiter, not so bad thinking about it in isolation.

侍应生的生活，单独考虑也没有那么糟糕。

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Well you can read the story, it's in Numbers 20, the incident is described there. But the answer is still not entirely clear, it's not clear what Moses did that was so bad as to deserve this punishment.

你们可以阅读这个故事，在民数记20，讲述了这个事件,然而答案却仍然不是完全清楚的，摩西究竟做了什么,坏事才遭受这样的惩罚，还不完全清楚。

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People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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Insofar as it deprives you of a future that would have been bad, then death's not actually bad, it's actually good.

当它夺走你的,苦难的未来时，那么死亡其实不是坏事而是好事。

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So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?

所以这并不是，就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好，因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢？

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