Leaders like President Obama,however, argue that the recession would have been much worse without the spending.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

What is it about the fact that we don't have something that we used to that makes it worse than ? not having something that we're going to?

要怎么看待,我失去了曾经拥有的事物,要比无法拥有,我们可能拥有的事物更糟糕？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So we are not going to do this Something will have to break within the next 20 years Are we getting our moneys worse for the healthcare that we get for those of us who are fortunate enough to get healthcare.

我们不会这样做,在之后的20年内,这个规则将被打破,对于我们这些,有医疗保障的幸运者,我们是不是因为医疗保障,所以没有很好的使用我们的钱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

A storm destroyed his house in 2007, he says.And worse, storm surges have tainted the water supply with salt.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"And the only think worse than the policy itself has been the process that the Democrats have followed to get this passed,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

In short,the pain,havoc, and economic devastation could have been far worse, according to the head of the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Hadi al-Marai,who head Iraq's Press Freedom and Observation center says the outcome could have been worse.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Otherwise it will have the opposite effect of excluding large chunks of poor people and they could become even worse off than they are today,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

You can't make life worse for clinicians. And you also have to understand the local needs and capabilities, which I think we see with m-health and emerging technologies there."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

"The banks that came closest were Citibank, Bank of America and if those had not been supported by the government, I think it might have caused a cascading crisis that would have been much worse than the one we actually had,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Abshir Ahmed,52, has lived all his life along a stretch of the desert near the town of Docol, Scratching the bone-dry earth with his bare,calloused feet, Ahmed says the devastation that he and others are experiencing now is worse than anything they have ever been through before.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The Syrians straddle the fence between the order of conservative nations on the one hand and this alliance with Iran on the other and it would make perfect sense for Bashar al-Assad to pose as the mediator with the Iranians, which means: hey,if you folks think I'm bad, think of the Iranians,they're much worse, but I have credit in their bank and I can deal with the Iranians."

VOA: standard.2009.03.18