虽然金融危机可能会在短期到中期造成严重困难和减缓经济增长，但其持续时间很少超过两三年。
While financial crises may cause serious hardship and reduce growth over the short - to medium-term, they rarely last more than a few years.
虽然该病毒可造成很严重和致命的疾病，包括在年轻和健康的人群中，但此类病例的数量仍然很少。
Although the virus can cause very severe and fatal illness, also in young and healthy people, the number of such cases remains small.
虽然很少人能预测到危机的严重性，但随着贝尔斯登的崩溃，美国就已经没有借口了。
Few predicted the severity of this crisis, yet once Bear Stearns collapsed there could be no excuses.
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