The dust is unbelievable. It's a complete nightmare.

尘土多到难以置信的地步，简真是一场噩梦。

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But it's going ahead, so we say, 'Let's just do what we can to make sure it's not a complete nightmare.

不过，既然事已至此，我们也只能说，'大家都尽量去做吧，免得这事情成为一场彻头彻尾的梦魇。'。

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This was the big challenge of this project. How to get the right balance between a nice mess and a complete nightmare?

这是该项目的巨大挑战。怎样在恰当的混乱与完全的噩梦之间把握平衡？

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We've got guests already booking accommodation near to the inn - it's a complete nightmare.

BBC: The Inn at Stonehall

Even though, by any way we can calculate it, he would almost certainly have been a complete nightmare to be around paranoid, shaky, unreliable and, a good part of the time, so deeply unconscious that the primary method of moving from one location to another would have been being dragged by the ankles we still have a slight cultural frisson of "How cool!"

WSJ: Caitlin Moran on Women and Overeating: I Know Why the Fat Lady Sings

It is a legalistic nightmare, and a complete joy.

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