It looked like they were going to strand. It was bad weather.

天气糟糕，它们似乎陷入了困境。

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They looked grave, like people who had come with the utmost reluctance to give a friend bad news .

他们都板着面孔，看上去就像迫不得已去向一个朋友报告噩耗一样。

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They were a pack of bearded, ragged, half-naked animals, and I probably looked as bad as they.

他们是一群胡子拉查，衣衫褴褛的野兽，而我的样子恐怕和他们差不多。

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But things don't look as bad as they looked 3 or 5 years back.

但与3或5年前比起来,情况已经缓和很多。

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Monopolies like Standard Oil and DuPont looked bad: they looked greedy and ruthless and, in the case of DuPont, which made munitions, sinister.

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He was an optimist, a good person to have around when things looked bad, as they had four months earlier when the Russians had sent up their Sputnik.

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If you looked into the reasons they missed the report did not seem so bad.

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