One point is obvious. When infrastructures are already weak, the vulnerability of populations to disasters is vastly increased.
有一点显而易见，在基础设施不够坚固时，人群在灾害面前具有的脆弱性会大大增加。
They were launched at a time when health systems were already weak, sometimes on the verge of collapse, following decades of neglect.
在发起这些行动时，经几十年忽视，卫生系统已很薄弱，有的甚至处于崩溃的边缘。
Yet even there the likely immediate outcome of the euro zone’s crisis is the enfeeblement of an already weak recovery, rather than a sudden slump.
即使这样，欧元区危机可能产生的直接后果也只是令恢复缓慢的欧洲经济更加衰弱，而不会导致突然的下滑。
S&P warned that the huge cost of last month's devastating earthquake will hurt already weak public finances.
该机构警告称，上月严重震灾后的巨大支出将令日本原本就十分羸弱的公共财务状况雪上加霜。
If many members of the work force are ill with malaria, this further hurts the already weak economy.
如果大量劳动力都患了疟疾，这就会损害已经衰弱的经济。
Experts warn that these diseases, though preventable, could cripple Africa's already weak and under-resourced healthcare systems.
专家们警告说，虽然这些疾病也可以预防，但可能会危害非洲已经薄弱而资源不足的卫生系统。
It is not just that a current account deficit represents a drain on already weak demand. It is also that these are countries, not parts of one.
经常帐户赤字会对业已疲软的需求构成压力，而且我们讨论的是一个个国家，而不是一个国家的各个组成部分。
The risk, acknowledged by the company itself, lies in the damage the writedown will do to Toshiba's already weak financial position and shareholder equity levels.
该公司承认，风险在于减记将损害东芝已然脆弱的财务状况和股东权益水平。
That could force businesses, hit by weaker consumer demand and an increase in their own costs, to pare operations and cut more jobs in an already weak labor market.
这可能也会迫使遭受消费者需求低迷和自身成本提高双重打击的企业精简运营，在已经疲弱的劳动力市场上削减更多工作岗位。
Promises to tackle budget deficits through public spending cuts and tax increases have offered little reassurance to bondholders, who know that austerity will hold back already-weak GDP growth.
通过削减公共开支和增加税收来处理预算赤字的承诺并不能让债券持有者安心，他们知道紧缩政策将会抑制已经疲弱的GDP增长。
Promises to tackle budget deficits through public spending cuts and tax increases have offered little reassurance to bondholders, who know that austerity will hold back already-weak GDP growth.
通过削减公共开支和增加税收来处理预算赤字的承诺并不能让债券持有者安心，他们知道紧缩政策将会抑制已经疲弱的GDP增长。
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