Pratuhr was suspicious but Nod assured him the Sisterhood had authorized the sale to raise desperately needed funds but wanted to keep it quiet to hide their dire situation.

普雷特将信将疑，但诺德向他保证，由于急需资金，开颜姐妹会已批准文物的出售事宜，不过，为了隐瞒姐妹会的窘境，她们不想将此事声张出去。

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Everything from computers to parking meters would need to be recalibrated; a thousand new hassles would make an already dire situation worse.

从电脑到停车收费器，一切都要重新校准，无数新的麻烦对早已紧迫的局面无异于火上浇油。

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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.

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"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,"

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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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