A birth angel, recruited from the younger ranks, attends every baby when it appears, while another angel, older but not grim, helps the dying to leave this world without grief or pain.
诞生天使，召募自较年轻的一群，得照料每位新生的宝宝；而较年长的天使，虽老但不阴森的那批，就帮助要死去的人，离开这世界，离开得无悲无痛。
There she saw a lonely house, looking so grim and mysterious, that it did not please her at all.
在那里，她看到了一所孤零零的房子，看上去既阴森又神秘，一点也不讨喜。
"He should not nod and smile at me for all that - the black, grim, ugly-eyed old man!" said Pearl.
“那个长得又黑又吓人、眼睛很丑的老头儿，才不会因为这个对我点头微笑呢！”珠儿说。
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。
Shewore grim dark suits that did not flatter her petite frame, and her hair was acareless mop of black curls.
她穿着不适合她娇小身材的黑色套装，未经修饰的黑色卷发乱蓬蓬一团。
Now you see, \' he adds, with a grim nod, \'why kids are not happy here.\'
现在你自己看见了为什么这里的孩子们不开心。”他补充道，带着一脸严肃的表情点了一下头。
My grandmother did not reply, but there was a glint in her eye and a grim set to her jaw that signaled she was not going to be 14)thwarted.
外婆没有回答，但她眼睛冒光，下巴僵直，流露出一副不甘心挫败的神情。
The grim outlook for container shipping is not simply a reflection of the recession. There is a deeper concern.
严峻的集装箱货运前景并不单单只是反映了经济萧条那么简单，而是有更深层次的原因。
Schools and hospitals are indeed free to enter, but they are grim, bare, crowded places where getting learning or treatment requires cash that many still do not have.
学校和医院确实可以自由进入，但它们却是冷酷的、极少的，拥挤在那里获得教育或治疗需要很多民众仍然没有的现金。
Those grim figures may not be a one-month fluke.
这些严峻的数字可能不是单月的偶然情况。
On other fronts the news is similarly grim, although perhaps not out of bounds of market expectations.
从别的方面来看，消息还是一样地令人沮丧，尽管可能并没有市场预期地那么糟。
The unemployment rate — stuck around 9 percent — is not as bad as that of the Great Depression, but in some respects the prognosis is equally grim.
维持在9%的失业率，并没有历史上的大萧条那么严重，但是在某些领域将会非常糟糕。
If we want to change that grim calculus, we have to learn to treat earthquake deaths as a symptom of misery — not the cause.
要想改变目前严峻现状，人们需要首先明白，地震不是苦难之因，而是苦难之兆。
If this vivid image of the grim future of our planet is not to become a reality, we must take positive steps right now to put an end the plundering of the Earth's natural resources.
如果不想让这个对这个星球可怕未来的生动的描绘变成现实，我们现在必须采取积极的措施停止掠夺地球的自然资源。
But not all the news is grim-and it is not just their owners that are casting around for ways to keep Britain's pubs open.
但不是所有消息都令人担忧——为维持英国酒吧的经营，不仅仅只有老板们在寻求出路。
并非所有的消息都是令人担忧的。
Steelworkers and coalminers have to face grim economic reality and see their companies liquidated; bankers, it seems, do not.
钢铁厂的工人和煤矿工人不得不眼睁睁地看着他们的工厂倒闭，银行职员似乎不必如此。
General retailers, on the front line of the consumer downturn, report continued weak trading, although the outlook on the High Street is not as grim as a few months back.
身处市场最前沿的普通零售商对消费下滑感同身受，他们报怨说生意持续低迷，尽管对繁华商业区生意的预期比几个月前乐观多了。
Not because I've staved off anything grim, but because I've found a new way to think about my life - as a self-powered trip across the country.
这不是因为我不顾那些艰险，而是因为我找到了思考人生的新方式——那就是自助穿越全国。
And while it was not official policy to discourage visitors, the grim Ashmolean certainly intimidated them.
尽管并没有哪个政策明令禁止人们前来，但严肃阴森的阿什莫尔必然会令游客望而却步。
Not all of their conclusions were that grim.
其实并非所有结论都是那么的严峻。
It is not just that the statistics showing another record leap in carbon output – 30.6 gigatonnes of CO2 over 2010 – to make the highest annual total in history are grim.
数据不仅显示出碳排放量的大幅升高记录——2010年二氧化碳总排放量为306亿吨——历史最高。
The novelty and danger of the situation modified in a way his disgust and distress at being compelled to be here, but not enough to prevent him from feeling grim and sour.
他现在的处境既新鲜又危险，这在某种程度上减轻了他对被起来这里感到的厌恶和痛苦，但是还不足以使他不感到闷闷不乐。
He did not thoroughly comprehend the meaning of his father's speech, or whether it were intended for him: indeed, he was not yet certain that the grim, sneering stranger was his father.
他还不能完全理解他父亲的话里的意思，或者以为不是指他说的：实在，他还不大相信这个令人生畏的、讥笑着的陌生人就是他的父亲。
The current situation, financial crisis, the adverse impact to our country has not been eliminated, from the macro level in terms of the employment situation is still very grim.
当前形势下，金融危机给我国造成的不利影响还没有消除，从整个宏观层面上讲就业形势仍旧很严峻。
The current situation, financial crisis, the adverse impact to our country has not been eliminated, from the macro level in terms of the employment situation is still very grim.
当前形势下，金融危机给我国造成的不利影响还没有消除，从整个宏观层面上讲就业形势仍旧很严峻。
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