Paul's problems at school became worse.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

All actions aim at preservation or change, at making something better or preventing it from becoming worse.

所有行动都是为了维持或者改变，为了让事物变得更美好,为了不让它变得糟糕。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

one way in which unpredictability at least has the potential of making things worse is this.

不可预见性,使事情更糟糕的一种情况是。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Spain has the highest unemployment rate in Europe at 20 percent, and it is likely to get worse.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

People are really bad at guessing about this, and they become worse and worse.

人们实在不擅长估测这些,而且变得越来越糟

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"The far worse damage has been done to millions of American families who did nothing wrong at all.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Good, so we assumed, we kind of jumped to just one election and at least in the American system, for better or for worse, I could voice an opinion on that there are lots of little elections on the way.

好,让我们假设,我们把思维跳跃到某一次选举中,至少在美国社会里,无论正误,我都有权发表自己的言论,现在正有很多初选进行中

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

He tells VOA that the natural disaster could not have happened at a worse time for Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

That is another question we want to ask And I think about the five days of pure rain, where people were soggy at the first night and it only got worse.

这也是我们想要问的另一个问题,以及“我们怎么成长“，我想到了，And，how，do，we，grow…,连续五天瓢泼大雨的一次,人们在第一天晚上都湿透了，状况越来越糟。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He disputed the efficacy of some of the drugs, which is in a way just as bad or even worse - because it prevented access to drugs, which could have been affordable at least to South Africa, In the end, the words of Nelson Mandela became a battle cry for many at the Conference.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17