Unfortunately, pieces of science journalism can also oversimplify and generalize their subject material to the point that the basic information conveyed is obscured or at worst, obviously wrong.
不幸的是，一些科学新闻也会过度简化、概括他们的主题材料，以至于模糊了所传达的基本信息，或者最糟糕的是，传达明显错误的信息。
This policy, they say, is at best confused and at worst non-existent.
他们说这项政策说好听点是混乱不清，说不好听点就是根本不存在。
The overall impact in Northern California is at worst, minimal.
即使受到最大冲击的北加州，也只受了些微小影响。
Unapproved use is at best worrying and unfair, and at worst dangerous and immoral.
未经批准擅自用药，往好说，令人忧虑、不公平，往坏说，就是危险、不道德。
If you did this, at best you would delay the time of budding, and at worst you would kill the plant.
如果你那样做了，最好的情况是你延误了它的发芽期，而最坏的情况是你会导致植物枯死。
Throughout the Golden Age, therefore, incomes grew but income inequality declined or, at worst, stayed unchanged.
因此，贯穿黄金年代始终的是，收入在增长，但收入的差距在缩小，或最不济，也只是保持不变。
Luckily, software developers have tools to facilitate "watching," reducing months to minutes or, at worst, hours or days.
幸运的是，软件开发人员可以利用工具简化“观察”的过程，将花费的时间从几个月减少到几分钟，至少减少到几小时或几天。
At best this caused hard to maintain code and at worst brittle code that fails when new types in the enterprise extend existing types.
即使最好的情况下这也会带来代码维护的困难，而最坏的情况当企业扩展现有类型而引入新类型时，脆弱的代码就会失效。
It may be quite useful to know that although a new algorithm is not optimal, it is within 12.3% of optimal at worst and 4.7% on average.
虽然新的算法不是最佳的，但它在最坏的情况下离最优值只差12.3%，平均只差4.7%，知道这一点也许很有用。
Most leading stock markets suffered only modest falls at worst and there was limited evidence of rising risk aversion in currency markets.
全球多数主要股市受到的最严重影响也仅仅是小幅下跌，同时外汇市场上投资者风险规避倾向上升的迹象也相当有限。
With households carrying big debts, falling incomes could heighten financial stress and, at worst, initiate a cycle of wage and price deflation.
随着每家每户都负担着庞大的债务，缩水的工资将加重他们的经济压力，在最坏的情况下甚至会形成工资和物价通缩的恶性循环。
In the average rich-country banking crisis, it took two years for growth to return to trend; at worst it took more than three (see article).
从富裕国家银行危机的经验看，增长恢复正常趋势的平均年限是两年，最多长达3年以上。
Flooding these systems with excessive request volumes will result in operational problems, and at worst, may lead to target endpoint system failure.
如果这些系统中涌入了过量的请求，那么将导致操作问题，并且在最坏的情况下，可能会导致目标端点系统故障。
When using a "live" CD, it is at best difficult — and at worst, impossible — to install your own applications, or to customize existing applications.
当使用“活动的”CD时，要安装自己的应用程序或定制现有应用程序会非常困难，甚至不可能。
Then he pulled out a camera and took Fan Ping's picture which seemed at best like an odd way to begin and at worst like a major violation of the man's privacy.
他拿出一部相机，给范平拍了照，这看起来，顶多算是一种奇怪的开场，最糟糕的情况则是严重的侵犯了这个男人的隐私。
One answer to this question is that while we're likely to think that other people are materialist, we defend our own purchases as necessary and at worst, indulgent.
一个答案是，当我们可能认为他人是物质主义者的时候，我们是在为自己的购买进行辩护甚至是纵容。
Steve Sorrell, chief author of the report, said forecasts suggesting oil production will not peak before 2030 were "at best optimistic and at worst implausible".
该报告的主要作者史蒂夫·索雷尔（Steve Sorrell）表示，石油产量峰值期不会在2030年之前出现的预测“往好处说，是过于乐观，而往坏处说，是不可信。”
If, for example, your opponent threw rock twice in a row, your next play should be scissors - at best it wins if he plays paper, at worst it ties if he plays scissors.
例如，如果你的对手出了石头两次，你下一个出的应该是剪刀——好的情形下，如果他出步，你会赢；最坏的情形可能是他出剪刀，成平手。
In a software project, discovering that a use case does not contain the necessary categories of information to move forward can be at best costly-at worst, disastrous.
在软件项目中，如果发现用例不包含继续前进所必需的信息类型，那么后果起码是代价惨重—甚至是灾难性的。
They wanted to isolate those lock-ups so that - at worst - they would only affect an individual user, and not be able to impact the health of the overall system in any way.
他们希望隔离这些锁定，这样即使在最坏的情况下，也只会影响到单个用户，而不会对整个系统的健康有任何影响。
Usually such jokes get only polite sympathy laughter at best, and at worst the joke falls completely flat or even offends, either way the presenter is off to a poor start.
通常这种笑话充其量只能得到礼貌性的、出于同情的笑声，而最坏的情况下，这种笑话则完全是无聊的，甚至会冒犯观众。总之，这样的展示一开始就有了坏兆头。
People who insisted that it was vital to look at worst-case scenarios when dealing with the Soviet Union proved remarkably averse to taking the same approach to environmental issues.
曾经坚持强调处理苏联问题时应参考最坏方案的人们，最终也强烈反对在环保问题上故技重施。
They describe the IPCC's assumption that the majority of future emission reductions will occur spontaneously, in the absence of climate policies, as "optimistic at best and unachievable at worst".
这批作者们描述了IPCC假设在缺乏气候政策的情况下，将来的减排大部分将自然而然地发生，这种设想从最好的情形讲过于乐观，从最坏的情形来讲则无法实现。
They describe the IPCC's assumption that the majority of future emission reductions will occur spontaneously, in the absence of climate policies, as "optimistic at best and unachievable at worst".
这批作者们描述了IPCC假设在缺乏气候政策的情况下，将来的减排大部分将自然而然地发生，这种设想从最好的情形讲过于乐观，从最坏的情形来讲则无法实现。
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