The prospect for equities may not be great, in other words—but they may still be the best of a bad lot.

股票的前景也许不那么好，但换句话说，它仍好比是一群矬子里最高的一个。

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He is thought to have been picked ahead of his two older brothers solely because he is the least bad of a bad lot.

他在其两个哥哥之前被选为候选人单纯因为他是在一帮没出息的家伙里面稍微有才的一个。

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That is the good news.The bad news is there isn't a text that fits this syllabus, so we choose readings from various sources.And the text that I have chosen is the best of a bad lot.

那是个好消息，坏消息是，没有与课程大纲对应的课本，我们从很多的资源中选取阅读材料，我选的课本不过是糟粕中的精华。

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He arrived with a lot of money. He later lost all his money in a very bad financial deal.

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That is the good news.The bad news is there isn't a text that fits this syllabus, so we choose readings from various sources.And the text that I have chosen is the best of a bad lot.

那是个好消息，坏消息是,没有与课程大纲对应的课本，我们从很多的资源中选取阅读材料,我选的课本不过是糟粕中的精华。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It's bad enough to say that a lot of the girls get pregnant at a younger age than opposed to here.

与这里情况相反，许多女孩在很年轻时就做了妈妈，这太糟糕了。

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Everybody knew the McKechnies, and most people knew they were a bad lot.

NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

Is this path really the best of a bad lot?

BBC: Why is America's fiscal cliff more worrying than Europe's?

That is too bad for a lot of reasons.

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