科学家们承认，人类活动已经深刻地改变了地球的气候。如今，越来越多的科学家开始提出这样一个问题：人类可否利用自身改造环境的力量使恶化的气候条件重新变好？
Now that scientists agree that humans have profoundly changed the Earth's climate, many have begun asking if we can use our globe-altering power to simply change it back.
大多数科学家相信温室气体效应使地球温度上升情况恶化。
Most scientists believe that a rise in the Earth's temperatures is worsened by the effect of greenhouse gases.
煤烟污染会刺激肺部，使哮喘等病情恶化，增加心脏病发作和过早死亡的风险。
Soot pollution can irritate the lungs, worsen conditions like asthma and increase the risks of heart attacks and premature death.
但是，大量的污染物质（包括苯）注定会对哮喘患者以及那些患有慢性阻塞性肺病患者构成真正的风险——使症状恶化，甚至导致死亡。
Still, the sheer volume of pollutants, including benzene, means they pose a real risk – of worse symptoms and even death – to asthmatics and those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
有些病人发现平底鞋使症状恶化。
Some patients find that flat shoes can make their symptoms worse.
树木不仅能为当地的含水层和集水区采集并过滤水，而且还有助于防止对水道造成污染并使干旱恶化的洪水暴发和溢流。
Not only do they help collect and filter water for local aquifers and watersheds, they also help prevent flash floods and runoff that pollute waterways and worsen droughts.
健康专家说呼吸污染的空气会影响呼吸功能并使哮喘和过敏者问题更加恶化。
Health experts say breathing polluted air can affect respiratory functions and worsen problems for those with asthma or allergies.
因此，用过量的氧气进行治疗，可能增加自由基的产生，使本就糟糕的情况更加恶化。
Treating with too much oxygen, therefore, could increase the production of free radicals and make a bad situation even worse.
他说老人们对此抱怨，不过走一走并没怎么使他们的健康状况恶化。
They grumbled, but it caused no obvious deterioration in their health, he says.
来自小麦条锈病的更严重威胁使事态更加恶化。
To make matters worse, the threat from stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) has also been worsening.
这会增加进口，使贸易差额恶化并使本国货币疲软。
This will tend to raise imports, worsen the trade balance, and weaken the domestic currency.
长此以往，情况会逐渐恶化使某些活动难于完成甚至无法完成。
If this continues, they can worsen and may make certain activities difficult or even impossible.
上个世纪30年代大萧条时期的情况也是如此，当时各国采取关闭大门的措施，等了10多年各国才一致应对挑战，因此拖长了那场危机的时间，使它更加恶化。
That was true in the Great Depression [of the 1930s], when nations prolonged and worsened the crisis by turning inward, waiting for more than a decade to meet the challenge together.
尽管如此，投资者兴趣渐浓是商用房地产企稳的一个信号，使该行业形势恶化拖垮银行、威胁到美国经济复苏的可能性有所下降。
Nevertheless, the growing interest from investors is a sign of stabilisation, making it less likely that worsening commercial real estate conditions will sink Banks and choke off a US recovery.
经济萧条使事态进一步恶化。
然而这两家公司放宽放贷标准以及接受高风险贷款的做法却使事情进一步恶化。
But both companies made things worse by loosening their standards and accepting riskier types of loans.
欧元区边缘国家持续恶化的债务危机使人们开始再次担心这16个经济情况各异的主权国家组成的货币联盟是否还能继续生存下去。
The worsening debt crisis on the euro zone's periphery has reawakened concerns about the viability of a currency union that encompasses 16 sovereign nations with disparate economies.
大多数人仍然不认为他们的症状与他们的食物有关，而医生的治疗只会产生副作用，这又会反过来造成更多的问题和使原来的症状恶化。
Most people will still not relate their symptoms to their foods and the doctor's cures will only cause side effects which, in turn, will cause more problems and worsen the original ones.
因此房价的变动使经济周期恶化。
全球变暖使这一效应恶化。
与此同时，经济衰退可能已经使不平等趋势恶化。
The recession, meanwhile, may have exacerbated trends in inequality.
粮农组织说，粮食、燃料和肥料飞涨的价格使这一问题恶化。
Soaring food, fuel and fertilizer prices have exacerbated the problem, the organization said.
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。
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.
而最近的一轮裁员使这个问题进一步恶化。
The latest round of job cuts will only exacerbate this problem.
过度的操劳使芳汀疲乏了，她原有的那种干咳病开始恶化。
Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled her increased.
过度的操劳使芳汀疲乏了，她原有的那种干咳病开始恶化。
Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled her increased.
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