Cabbage smells terrible if you cook it too long.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

If things weren't working out by the end of the summer he'd fire me and I go back to Stanford for business school, that didn't sound too terrible.

如果不行的话，他就炒了我呗,我还可以会斯坦福继续读商科，这听起来又不会太差。

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But if you push it too far you will anger the gods and something terrible will happen to you.

但是如果过分追名逐利,便会触怒诸神,灾难随即降临

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"The reality is that economically it is fatal, but emotionally for people too it can also be terrible.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

He said Southerners are "Proud, brave, honorable by its" The South is "Proud, brave, honorable by its lights, courteous, personally generous, loyal, swift to act, often too swift, but signally effective, sometimes terrible in its actions.

他写道南方,"因自豪勇敢而可敬",南方人,"因自豪勇敢而可敬,他们彬彬有礼,对人慷慨,他们忠诚,行动迅速,常常过于迅速,但他们效率显著,有时甚至不择手段

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