Whatever the details might be, we could describe lives and say, whether or not their life was good as a whole, what the future holds out for them is negative.

不管详细情况是什么，我们可以把他们的生活形容为，不管他们一生的生活是否美好，他们的未来都是不容乐观的。

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if something seems good or bad or whatever.

表示事情的好与坏，或在其他情况下，都可以使用。

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There's this whole sense that the thing is precarious and you'd better kind of mind your Ps and Qs, or whatever the expression is, and be a good person or this whole thing could kind of be literally flooded away.

从这个场景中可以看出堤坝相当不稳定,你最好想想干过什么缺德事儿,或者捅过什么篓子之类的,总之得做个好人,否则,这整个城市就可能真会被大水冲走

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