Shronda's grades were lousy because no one pushed her to do better.
史朗达的分数非常糟糕，因为没人去激励她上进。
I may be lousy at a lot of other things. But I know how to run a car company.
别的方面我可能不在行，但是经营汽车公司，我可是行家。
Now, don't use this as a pretext to write code that performs lousy, just don't overdo it.
而现在，我们再也不能以这样的理由为编写出性能糟糕的代码寻求托辞了，当然，我们也不能矫枉过正。
For one kilowatt-hour of electricity, which is four million joules, I pay only a lousy ten cents.
为一千瓦时电，就是四百万焦耳，我只花区区10美分。
Says he's a lousy golfer, but loves the game.
据称他的高尔夫球水平不高，但喜欢这项运动。
In other words, the sleep-deprived among us are lousy judges of our own sleep needs.
换句话说，我们当中的睡眠不足者难以准确判断自身的睡眠需求。
A few years later I took a second look at that first poem; it was a pretty lousy poem.
几年以后，当我再读我的第一首诗时，发现它的确写得很糟糕。
But one thing can be said unequivocally: He's a lousy prognosticator of economic growth rates.
不过有一点却是明确无疑的：他是个蹩脚的经济增速预测者。
That means you have to go to investors one at a time, and that's a very lousy way to raise money.
这也就意味着你只能同投资者进行单独谈话，无疑，这种筹资方式十分繁琐低效。
Although they still make lousy returns at home, they used the recent credit crisis to expand abroad.
尽管在国内的收益和盈利乏善可陈，它们却通过这次信贷危机向国外扩展。
Reader's Digest Version: Paper and plastic are both lousy choices. Take your own reusable canvas bags.
读者文摘解答：纸袋和塑料袋都不是好选择。自己带可以循环利用的布袋最好。
This is one of the biggest things that separates a decent foreign language writer from a lousy one.
这是区别外语写作者水平优劣的最关键因素之一。
We all know public bathrooms are lousy with bacteria, but what kind are they, and how did they get there?
我们都知道公共卫生间里有很多细菌，但到底都是哪些种细菌，这些细菌又是从哪儿来的呢？
This is a particular mystery because tin, which shares many of the features of lead, makes lousy batteries.
这一点显得颇为神秘，因为和铅特性差不大多的锡，无法用来做电池。
“I’m a lousy gambler, ” he said with a shrug. “But maybe I’ll do better now, knowing there’s nothing to lose.”
“我是个烂赌鬼，”他耸耸肩，“这样也许反而更好，因为我没什么可再失去的了。”
I quickly grabbed an onion in hope of blaming the saltwater running down my cheeks on something other than my lousy frame of mind.
我迅速抓起一个洋葱，想把自己脸上流淌着的带咸味的水迁罪于某样东西而非我糟糕的心境。
A common gripe I hear from developers is that a game has a really great concept or aesthetic, but that the user interface (UI) is lousy.
我最常从开发者那里听到的抱怨就是，这个游戏真的很有内容，或者画面真的很棒，但就是UI糟糕了点。
We have two choices every day. We can feel good about ourselves, or we can feel lousy about ourselves. Why would anyone choose the latter?
我们每天都有两种选择。我们可以感到自己很棒，也可以感到自己很差劲。难道有人会选择后者吗？
Here's the secret: Almost everyone is doing a lousy job of it. Do it well (even if you hate it), and you're already well ahead of the herd.
诀窍就是：几乎每个人都做得很糟。你能做好它(即使你讨厌这样)，你就是领头羊。
Not even the posh seaside resort in Florida where the conference was held could mask what a lousy time it was to be in the nuclear business.
即便是会议举办地佛罗里达州的一派奢华海边度假胜地景象，也无法掩盖核能产业此时的失落。
The fact that British property returns were the second-worst of all countries in the IPD database in 2008 was not just down to a lousy economy.
英国房产回报率位列2008年IPD数据库所有国家倒数第二位的事实并不仅是因为糟糕的经济环境。
We must stress the importance of listening to our emotions and not the guesses as we often do: "I'm sad, it must be because of this lousy weather.
必须强调的一点就是要聆听情绪，而不是我们通常的做法：只是猜测，比如“我很伤心，肯定是因为这讨厌的天气”。
Ever since I was a little kid, whenever I've had a lousy day, my dad would put his arm around me and promise me that "tomorrow will be a better day."
从小时候到现在，每当我哪天过得不顺心，爸爸总会搂着我向我保证说：“明天会更好。”
America is more productive than the euro zone and Japan largely because the latter both have a lousy record in services (too many rules and not enough competition).
美国的生产效率比欧元地区和日本更高，因为后两者的服务行业比较差(主要受限于其繁杂的政策和没有足够的竞争)。
America is more productive than the euro zone and Japan largely because the latter both have a lousy record in services (too many rules and not enough competition).
美国的生产效率比欧元地区和日本更高，因为后两者的服务行业比较差(主要受限于其繁杂的政策和没有足够的竞争)。
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