The notional cost of Irish borrowing shot to disturbingly high levels on Wednesday.
到周三,爱尔兰的预估借债成本已经达到了惊人的水平。
Yet something disturbingly like this may actually be happening without the world noticing.
但是类似的事情可能正真实地发生着,整个世界竟浑然不知,着实令人不安。
The world economy - or at least that of the advanced countries - remains disturbingly fragile.
全球经济(或者至少是发达国家经济)仍脆弱得令人不安。
Just last week, a study in Environmental Health Perspectives found disturbingly high levels of a flame-retardant chemical in a sample of butter.
就在上个星期,一项环境卫生研究结果称,在一批奶油样品中发现高含量的阻燃化学物质。
In a city that made a cult of physical beauty (an exquisite face was thought to reveal an inner nobility of spirit) the philosopher was disturbingly ugly.
在这样一个狂热的追求外貌美丽(精美的面孔被认为代表了灵魂的高尚)的地方,这位哲学家显得格外的丑陋。
There is a disturbingly high number of teenagers who are addicted to cigarettes.
青少年染上烟瘾的数量多得令人担忧。
And perhaps even more disturbingly, sometimes I can't even answer the question myself. Where am I from?
也许更令我不安的是,有时我自己甚至都无法回答我是哪儿人这个问题。
The suspected link is a virus that is killing chimpanzees in the wild at a disturbingly high rate, according to a study in tomorrow's issue of the journal Nature.
明天出版的《自然》杂志上的一篇研究报告显示,这个疑似的缺失环节就是一种病毒,这种病毒致使野生黑猩猩正以令人不安的高比率死亡。
A good example of what many (though not all) economists would consider a mistake has been the decision to go for tradeable emissions permits whose prices have proved disturbingly unstable.
许多(尽管并非所有)经济学家都认为是一个错误的恰当例子是:决定推行可交易的排放权。令人不安的是,事实证明,排放权价格非常不稳定。
The number who "drop out" after one or two years is disturbingly large, though there is evidence that even incomplete university study gives a person better career prospects than none at all.
然而,有迹象表明,一个人即使大学肄业也比根本未上大学要有更好的就业前景。
Disturbingly, nearly half the drivers in the 20 cities IBM surveyed said traffic had gotten worse in the last three years -- and 18 percent said it had gotten significantly worse.
令人不安的是,在IBM调查的20个城市中,有半数司机认为三年内交通状况变糟了- 百分之十八的人认为这种恶化十分显著。
Disturbingly, nearly half the drivers in the 20 cities IBM surveyed said traffic had gotten worse in the last three years -- and 18 percent said it had gotten significantly worse.
令人不安的是,在IBM调查的20个城市中,有半数司机认为三年内交通状况变糟了- 百分之十八的人认为这种恶化十分显著。
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