He's never very happy at the best of times—he'll be much worse now!

他即使在情绪最好的时候也从未很高兴过，现在就更糟了！

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At the close of the previous century, ambitions for malaria control had been reduced to holding the disease at bay, aiming to keep a very bad situation from getting any worse.

在上个世纪结束之际，疟疾控制方面的远大目标已被降至保持疾病稳定，其目标是保证其糟糕的境况不再变得更坏。

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We are naturally skeptical of the unknown and, of course, there is always a chance we might not be very good at it, or even worse, might look silly while trying.

我们对于未知事物有天然的怀疑，而且，我们当然可能对其并不擅长，或者更糟的是，在尝试时洋相百出。

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Alarmed at the prospect of losing money, many of them sold on the way down or, worse, at the very bottom.

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Worse, at the time very few mom and pop restaurants had a PC or plans to buy one.

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But if we keep kicking the can down the road, the problem just keeps getting worse, and then at some point it will be very difficult to deal with because the consequences will be so painful.

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