"These are very tough times for hardworking families, but the toll would be far worse if we had not acted," he said.
“这对于努力工作的家庭来讲是艰难时期，但如果我们不行动，代价会更大。”他说。
The efforts of millions of drivers to get ahead do not miraculously produce a situation in which everyone does better than before, but one in which almost everyone does rather worse.
数以万计的司机为求发展所做的努力并没有奇迹般地创造出一种人人都比以前做得好的局面，相反，几乎人人都做得更差了。
But grim though that sounds, it is in fact no worse than in France, Spain and Germany, where people drink just as much but are not as exercised about it.
这听起来虽然毛骨悚然，但事实上法国，西班牙和德国人饮酒量也差不到多少，只是他们不会对此表现出不安的情绪。
But there is a universality of limits that even New York is not immune to, and maybe makes worse.
但这里有一个极限的普遍性：即使是纽约也不能免疫，有时候还可能让事情变得更糟。
The puzzle about the British economy is not that it is doing badly but that it is not doing worse.
英国经济的难题不在于它表现很差，而在于它没有表现得更差。
Worse, your design may not be implemented and used properly if process management techniques are only talked about but not followed.
更糟的是，如果只是讨论而未遵循流程管理技术，您的设计可能不会得到正确实现和使用。
All the rats showed early signs of tau tangles and had difficulty navigating a maze, but the rats that were on nicotine did worse than those that were not.
所有老鼠都出现头蛋白神经细胞缠结早期症状，在迷宫中难于找到走出方向。但是，服用尼古丁老鼠比未服用尼古丁的老鼠情况更糟。
"The shake has been a lot worse, maybe not in intensity but as far as damage is concerned, and there are numerous people trapped, " a fire service spokesman told Radio New Zealand.
一名消防局发言人告诉新西兰电台：“这次的地震比上次严重的多。虽然密度不高，但是造成的损失更大。
Performance with IB was usually better than TCP over 1gb Ethernet, but not always; there were even times when IB seemed worse.
IB的性能通常会比1gb以太网的TCP好很多，但并非总是如此，有时IB的性能会更糟。
If you work at home (like I sometimes do), it's very tempting to just get up and start working in your pajamas (or worse). But if you don't feel clean, you might not feel productive.
如果你是在家工作的话(我有时候会在家工作)，你很容易就会想要站起来换上你的睡衣工作(或者更糟糕)但是如果你感到自己不是很干净，你就会觉得你的工作效率不高。
But it does not automatically follow that the more people there are, the worse the damage.
但这并不直接导出人越多，破坏越大这一结论。
The reason that American cars are such gas-guzzlers is not that their engines have got worse but that the cars themselves have got heavier.
美国汽车耗油量大的原因并不在于引擎耗油，而是因为汽车本身变重了。
Not only is it impossible to turn back the tide of globalization, but efforts to do so can make us worse off.
不仅全球化的大潮不可能逆转，而且那些不切实际的做法只能使我们的生活变得更加糟糕。
"In the end, the question is not whether things are worse, but whether they are bad enough to mobilize concern and concerted action, " he said.
“问题并不在于情况是否糟糕，而是情况是否糟糕到引发社会关注并付诸协调一致的行动。”他指出结论。
And that's good news, because I do think we ultimately have to embrace a superorganism of some kind - not because it's inevitable, but because the alternative is worse.
而那倒是件好事，因为我确实认为我们最终还是得接受某种超个体，这不是因为超个体不可避免，而是因为其它选择更为糟糕。
But even worse, just because the API says you can send anything does not mean you can really send anything.
但更糟糕的是，API说您可以发送任何东西，但这不意味着您真的可以发送任何东西。
True, there are far worse labels, but if someone used that description of you following a first date, there might not be a second one.
的确，比这糟糕的评价还有很多，但是当你第一次约会时，如果对方用“人很好”来形容你，那也许就不会有第二次约会了。
But while the adverse situation was supposed to be unlikely, it is not that much worse than what has happened so far.
虽然如此糟糕的情景并不太可能会发生但是目前已经发生的情况也好不到哪里去。
This is different than before, but it's not automatically worse. And because I know your secrets, you can't use my secrets as a weapon against me.
这种情况和以往不同，但这种情况并非(自动地)变得(比现在)更差了：因为我知道你的秘密，你就不能把我的秘密当成对付我的武器。
We were not any worse in them than others but we paid for the two late goals against Lyon.
我们并不比其他球队差，但我们对阵里昂的两场比赛均在临近结束时丢球。
Many blame ignorance, not malice, but she thinks Guangzhou worse than other cities she has lived in: "They are always talking about colour," she says.
许多人是因为无知，并无恶意，但是她认为广州比她以前居住的城市都要差很多：”他们总是谈论肤色，“ 她说。
But a study of the north Atlantic and the Caribbean, just published in Science, suggests things are not getting worse.
然而一个发布在《科学》上、有关北大西洋和加勒比海的研究显示海洋污染并未恶化。
In the years since 1968, the club's fortunes had not only declined but, worse, those of its greatest rival, Liverpool FC, had risen.
1968年夺冠以后，俱乐部不仅在走下坡路，而且更糟糕的是，他们的头号死敌利物浦开始崛起。
Not that they face imminent extinction - it's a fate much worse than that. They will still be around, but they will be ignored.
并不是说他们即将面临灭绝——而是一个更糟糕的宿命。他们会继续存在，但将被忽视。
One inference is that Europe was not only worse than America at making IT, but also much worse at using it.
可以推断，欧洲不仅在IT产业的开发上不如美国，在信息技术的使用上更加不如美国。
The dossier made a bad situation worse, the author concludes, but was not the turning-point it has been portrayed as.
作者认为，虽然这些档案使局势变得更糟糕，但它不是世人所描述的转折点。
"Things could have been a lot worse" may not be the most stirring of slogans, but when everyone expected utter disaster, it amounts to a policy triumph.
“情况原本会比现在差得多”也许不是最令人激动的口号，但是当所有人都估计会出现绝对的灾难时，能有这些的说法就等于政策上的巨大胜利。
For instance, inferior-quality medicines not only aggravate a patient's condition, but also tend to threaten his life and, what's worse, to result in his death.
例如，伪劣药品不仅使病人的病情恶化，而且往往会威胁病人的生命，更糟的是，导致病人的死亡。
“We do not have a full-blown crisis, but everything has got significantly worse,” says a Western economist in Istanbul.
一位驻伊斯坦布尔的西方经济学家表示：“危机还没有全面形成，但各方面形势均已明显恶化。”
“We do not have a full-blown crisis, but everything has got significantly worse,” says a Western economist in Istanbul.
一位驻伊斯坦布尔的西方经济学家表示：“危机还没有全面形成，但各方面形势均已明显恶化。”
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