在选举前的数月，默克尔回避一切糟糕政策以避免争议本事似乎十分娴熟。
In the months before the election, Ms Merkel's knack of avoiding controversy by steering clear of any awkward policy issues seemed adroit.
放贷机构常常与借款者勾结，以扩大抵押贷款规模，或者更糟糕的是，向借款者兜售错误的政策。
Too often lenders connived with borrowers to swell the size of mortgages, or worse, sell borrowers the wrong policy.
更糟糕的是，某些情况下，这些政策将在未来最需要国内消费的时候，对其构成严重制约。
What is worse, in some cases these policies will sharply constrain future domestic consumption, just when it is needed most.
糟糕的政策导致的恶果最明显的体现就在于乙醇和其他“恶魔般的”生物燃料的兴起。
Where the effects of bad policy are clearest, however, is in the rise of demon ethanol and other biofuels.
但更重要的教训是，噩运和糟糕的政策一样值得重视。
But the more important lesson is that bad luck is as important as bad policy.
可能是不公平或糟糕的政策，是不合法的吗？
避免未来的灾难必须责怪对人；大多数该被谴责的应该是糟糕的政策，而不是贪婪的银行家。
Avoiding future disasters means allocating blame accurately; and most of it lies with bad policy, not with greedy bankers.
过去，这样的机会大都因糟糕的政策而浪费掉了。
In the past, such opportunities were all too often squandered through bad policies.
为了面子而坚持一项糟糕的政策，会让你显得更软弱。
It is much weaker to stick to a bad policy for the sake of it.
这种骑虎难下的局面造成了今天的美国既是世界最大的违禁药品进口国，又是世界最大的糟糕毒品政策出口国。
As a result of this utter failure to think, the United States today is both the world's largest importer of illicit drugs and the world's largest exporter of bad drug policy.
糟糕的IT治理忽略了客户，而孤立地去满足法规、标准和政策。
Poor IT governance loses sight of the customer in favor of satisfying regulations, standards, and policies in isolation.
更为糟糕的是，美国没有采取连贯的能源政策，更别说对碳定价了。
To make matters worse, America has failed to adopt a coherent energy policy, let alone one that imposes a price on carbon.
企业管治专家彼得·蒙塔尼翁指出，糟糕的薪酬政策通常反映出管理的糟糕。
Often, bad pay policy reflects bad management, says Peter Montagnon, an expert in corporate governance.
对持有欧元储备好处的质疑，亦因为各国在对抗信贷危机政策上–从储蓄担保到银行救援与财政刺激–的糟糕合作而有所增强。
Doubts about the merits of holding euro reserves have been raised by poor co-ordination of policies-from deposit guarantees to bank bail-outs and fiscal packages-in response to the credit crisis.
他对好的政策乱动手脚，又废止不了糟糕的政策，例如，他曾试图阻止邮政体系的私有化。
He has meddled with good policies and failed to stop bad ones, such as the attempt to roll back the privatisation of the postal system.
更糟糕的是，美国国会到现在还没有决定到底如何处理到今年年底就会失效的一整套减税政策。
Worse, Congress has still not decided what to do about a big package of tax cuts that is due to expire at the end of the year.
更为糟糕的是，他并未阐明如何实施这项新的减税政策。
Worse yet, he hasn’t detailed how he would pay for this new giveaway.
更为糟糕的是，他并未阐明如何实施这项新的减税政策。
Worse yet, he hasn't detailed how he would pay for this new giveaway.
有一个很好的例子是：因为美国通过了一个糟糕的税收政策，他们不知道以后两年的税收负担是什么。
Case in point: Even with passage of the lame-duck tax deal, hey still don't know what their tax burden will be two years from now.
情况还会变得更加糟糕，如果那些赤字强迫症政策制定者们不准备去解决的话，包括对各州提供财政援助，争取对房产资不抵债族的宽限。
Conditions apparently have to get worse before deficit-obsessed policy makers will be ready to address them, including with bolstered foreclosure relief and more fiscal aid to states.
但如果美国及其盟国最终把局面搞砸，则要怪它们糟糕的政策决定。
But if the United States and its Allies end up messing up their part of the equation, blame it on their bad policy decisions.
这看起来是一项很糟糕的政策。
委员会唯一糟糕的建议是上网电价政策——对可再生能源的巨额补助(在很多欧洲国家都实施该政策)。
The committee's only really bad idea is feed-in tariffs-hefty subsidies to renewable energy-of a sort used in many European countries.
美国大多数肆意挥霍的州并不像希腊欠的那么多，但它们的政策一样糟糕。
America's most profligate states do not owe as much, proportionately, as Greece. But their politics are just as problematic.
不过对于工作优先级、政策或流程做出错误的设想会糟糕地多。
It's far worse, however, to make incorrect assumptions about priorities, policies or procedures.
不过对于工作优先级、政策或流程做出错误的设想会糟糕地多。
It's far worse, however, to make incorrect assumptions about priorities, policies or procedures.
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