Senator John C. Calhoun said it was a bad defeat for the south. But what was worse was the fact that it was caused by the votes of two southern senators.

约翰。C .卡尔豪参议员说，这一法案的通过对南方而言是一次糟糕的失败，但更糟糕的是，这一失败却是由两名南方参议员投了赞成票而引起的。

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Before I set foot on the floor, I had only one purpose, and that was to win, and nothing in the world was worse than the one who had spent the night in the defeat of Iverson.

在踏上任何比赛的地板之前，我，艾弗森只有一个目的，那就是取胜，这世界上没有什么比在失败中度过一个夜晚更糟糕的了。

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Michael Carrick has never felt worse than he did after the defeat to Barcelona last May.

迈克尔·卡里克从没有比上赛季输给巴塞罗那更糟糕的感觉。

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But a defeat would have been infinitely worse.

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And the defeat, Saracens' fourth in the pool, was made worse when Gavin Henson, who came on as a replacement, Steve Borthwick, Michael Tagicakibau, Hugh Vyvyan and David Strettle all picking up knocks, with Henson's calf injury looking the most problematic.

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