I had a very dire situation happen to me Friday.

星期五发生了可怕的事，我可倒霉了。

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Sad indeed, as much of Greece's dire situation is.

的确是太可怜了，希腊的总体情况也是一样。

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She misses Iraq, but has no misconception of the dire situation that exists there.

她想念伊拉克，但对于在那儿业已存在的可怕局面有不抱任何想法。

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It is a slippery slope. And, we're not careful, before we know it all of us will be in a much more dire situation."

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

With the family in a dire situation, the woman had to ask her husband and mother-in-law for permission to sell the tapestries and crafts she could produce.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

It's a dire situation that would take decades and untold billions of dollars to rectify.

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"It's a dire situation, " said Melissa Seide Rubin of the Humane Society of the United States.

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This time around, Chinese policymakers are facing a less dire situation, as explained above.

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