They basically all failed and were taken over by foreign banks after the Mexican Crisis, so that's a sign of how things can go amiss.

他们已然全数破产并于,墨西哥银行业危机,之后被外国银行接管,这正是事态发展恶劣程度的标志

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that it could be blown out of proportion and misused by the principal or by third parties.

那么事态可能会扩大，安乐死的做法会被主要相关人员和第三方滥用。

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They are speaking the language of some kind of religious or quasi-religious desecration.

他们将事态讲成类似宗教,或半宗教性质的亵渎神圣。

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You've got horses which you need for the army but also which they start slaughtering; you've got cattle but you have enough food to last for maybe a month; there's always a lot to drink because of the caves, that is, the wine cellars that people had, but things get worse and worse.

你有军队所需的马,但是士兵会把马杀来吃,你有牛,但是这些食物只能,维持大概一个月的时间,喝的东西总是不缺的,因为他们有酒窖,就是用来储藏葡萄酒的酒窖,不过事态还是变得越来越糟

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s he going to see, how things are going to go.

丈夫怎么去看，What’,事态会如何发展等。

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If this happened frequently enough, instead of just a little science fiction story like with the David Smith case, maybe we'd say,yeah,possession is one of these things that needs to be explained.

如果这种事情频繁发生，而不是像David，Smith案例般的科幻故事，也许我们就会说，没错，夺舍是一个亟待解释的事态。

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