The truth is that, although communication is critically important to the success of organizations-perhaps more so than ever before-it is often, at best, dysfunctional, and, at worst, terribly broken.
真相是尽管交流对组织的成功十分重要——也许重要性胜过以往——可在好的时候，交流往往运转得不好，坏的时候交流则破坏得很严重。
I’m at my worst when I’m isolated from people and at my best when I’ve at least spent some time with close friends (usually who I don’t know from business).
远离人群，人会变得很糟糕，但是和关系亲近的人（通常是通过业务认识的陌生人）在一起，人便会很有状态。
But if that's the case, then schools are nothing more than, at best, glorified daycare centres and, at worst, juvenile detention centers.
但如果是这样的话，那学校最多也是美其名的托儿所而已，或者往坏里说就是少年管教所，除此外没什么意义。
But most seem to think the senator is inept at best and a liar at worst.
但是大多数人认为这位议员太过笨拙，还是最差的说谎者。
At best this caused hard to maintain code and at worst brittle code that fails when new types in the enterprise extend existing types.
即使最好的情况下这也会带来代码维护的困难，而最坏的情况当企业扩展现有类型而引入新类型时，脆弱的代码就会失效。
The great occupational hazard for any biographer is falling too much under the sway of his or her subject, becoming at best a biased observer, and at worst a propagandist.
对于任何一个传记作家的致命瓶颈就是太多的受其传记的主体影响，说的好听叫偏激观察者，难听了说就是一个宣传机器。
When we make negative gestures, they at best irritate China and at worst alienate China's goodwill when we should be building a serious strategic partnership between the EU and China.
若我们摆出消极姿态，那么最轻也会激怒中国；最严重的情况下，还会使我们疏远中国方面的善意，而我们本应在欧盟与中国之间建立一种认真的战略伙伴关系。
Usually such jokes get only polite sympathy laughter at best, and at worst the joke falls completely flat or even offends, either way the presenter is off to a poor start.
通常这种笑话充其量只能得到礼貌性的、出于同情的笑声，而最坏的情况下，这种笑话则完全是无聊的，甚至会冒犯观众。总之，这样的展示一开始就有了坏兆头。
Then he pulled out a camera and took Fan Ping's picture which seemed at best like an odd way to begin and at worst like a major violation of the man's privacy.
他拿出一部相机，给范平拍了照，这看起来，顶多算是一种奇怪的开场，最糟糕的情况则是严重的侵犯了这个男人的隐私。
When using a "live" CD, it is at best difficult — and at worst, impossible — to install your own applications, or to customize existing applications.
当使用“活动的”CD时，要安装自己的应用程序或定制现有应用程序会非常困难，甚至不可能。
But Gordon Brown is said to regard the EU as, at best, another multilateral organisation (like the G8 or the World Bank) and, at worst, as irrelevant.
布朗时代欧盟最好也只能被看作是一个多边合作组织（象G8或世界银行），往差里说，可能连这些组织都不如。
The chief problem: They tend to have a very narrow viewing sweet spot-you can't shift too far to either side without being left with an image that's blurry at best and nauseating at worst.
主要问题在于它们目前只实现了一个很窄的最佳观看位置——你不能在任何一方移动太远而导致不能保留图像而导致最好的情况下也会图像模糊或在最坏的情况下令人头晕作呕(本句请大侠指正……)。
At best, too much residual fat in the stool just means a slightly upset stomach and a few more trips to the loo, but at worst in some people it can lead to "anal leakage".
如果粪便中剩余的脂肪过多，好一点的结果就是胃部消化不良，你可能不得不多去几趟卫生间；坏的结果是有些人会得痢疾。
They describe the IPCC's assumption that the majority of future emission reductions will occur spontaneously, in the absence of climate policies, as "optimistic at best and unachievable at worst".
这批作者们描述了IPCC假设在缺乏气候政策的情况下，将来的减排大部分将自然而然地发生，这种设想从最好的情形讲过于乐观，从最坏的情形来讲则无法实现。
These elements can make the server look unsightly at best or complicated and difficult to upgrade and manage at worst.
在最好的情况下，这些因素会使服务器变得混乱，至于最坏的情况，服务器可能变得复杂并且难以升级和管理。
The distinction is similar to the rule that one should judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
这种区分类似于你判断一个人很有天赋，性格却很差。
The legends around him are insufficient at best and grossly inaccurate at worst.
围绕着他的传奇，要么就是对他好的方面描述不足，要么就是对他缺点描述极不准确。
If you're like most of the rest of the Web development world, validation is at best a nuisance, and at worst, a full-blown nightmare.
如果您像Web开发领域的其余大部分人一样，验证充其量只是有点讨厌，最坏也不过是一场情节丰富的噩梦。
What results instead of order is, at worst, chaos and, at best, large blocks of boilerplate synchronization code prone to bugs.
打乱顺序最糟糕的结果是造成数据混乱，最幸运的结果是大块样本同步代码出现bug。
Bad response: "Your claims are at best pure fabrications and at worst a deliberate attempt to slander our good reputation."
错误的回复：“说好听点，你纯粹在捏造事实；说难听点，你是企图诋毁我们的良好声誉！”
At best they are estimates, and at worst they may not be valid for your particular DB2 environment.
在最好的情况下，这些ROT是一种估计，而在最坏的情况下，这些ROT对于特定的DB 2环境可能不成立。
However, the "quirks" within a global assembly line which make worker suffering at best likely and at worst inevitable are beginning to receive more attention.
然而，全球产业链的“陋习”(quirks)使得工人们或多或少都会遭受痛苦，人们正开始对此投入更多的关注。
Steve Sorrell, chief author of the report, said forecasts suggesting oil production will not peak before 2030 were "at best optimistic and at worst implausible".
该报告的主要作者史蒂夫·索雷尔（Steve Sorrell）表示，石油产量峰值期不会在2030年之前出现的预测“往好处说，是过于乐观，而往坏处说，是不可信。”
If you did this, at best you would delay the time of budding, and at worst you would kill the plant.
如果你那样做了，最好的情况是你延误了它的发芽期，而最坏的情况是你会导致植物枯死。
At best, dealing with these issues helps people mature and gain wisdom, but at worst, they can completely break your heart and crush your soul.
最好的情况是，处理这些问题使人们日渐成熟，增长智慧。但是在最坏的情况下，这些问题却可以让人崩溃。
At best, dealing with these issues helps people mature and gain wisdom, but at worst, they can completely break your heart and crush your soul.
最好的情况是，处理这些问题使人们日渐成熟，增长智慧。但是在最坏的情况下，这些问题却可以让人崩溃。
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