Fix any small problem right away before it causes a serious damage.

小故障立刻修理，避免引起更大的损失。

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The goods have sustained a serious damage, but the extent of the damage is not yet known.

该货已遭到严重损坏，但损坏程度尚未查清。

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Repetition is a serious damage on the standardization of the language and literature dictionaries.

重复，对语文词典的典范性来说，是一种严重的损害。

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Government too faces a cleanup. Its main building suffered serious damage and the prosecutor's office was completely gutted.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The United Nations said there was serious damage to the headquarters of its mission in Haiti, and a large number of staff were unaccounted for.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

Third, the act causes serious violence against a person, serious damage to property, creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public, etc.

ECONOMIST: Expanding waste

At heart it is an argument over the probability of serious damage as a result of climate change and the probability of serious damage as a result of trying to avoid it.

FORBES: Politicians Really Are Ignorant: Now We Have Proof

His lawyer Simon McKay said the medical board had recommended the soldier should be discharged as a result of serious brain damage caused following his collapse while on a charity run in the Amazon jungle four years ago.

BBC: Sgt Danny Nightingale recommended for discharge from army