他们认为，金融全球化本身不应该看作一件坏事，而是一件好事。

Financial globalisation itself, they imply, ought to be seen not so much as a bad thing, but as too much of a good one.

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我很久没有如此八卦过了，但我不知道这究竟是一件好事还是一件坏事？

I have long been not so nosy, but I do not know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing?

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我们会和这些国家建立良好的关系，但是如果他们被一种友好的方式惹恼的了话，那是一件好事，不是一件坏事。

We're going to have great relationships with these countries but if they're rattled in a friendly way that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

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If the chance of death would add a kind of zest, then perhaps the ubiquity of death is actually a good thing rather than a bad thing.

如果死亡的可能性增加是一种兴趣，那么也许死亡的无处不在,事实上是一件好事而非坏事。

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People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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