Floods, like famines, do their worst damage in the weeks and months after the highest waters have subsided.

洪水与饥荒一样，在最高浪潮退去后的数个星期和几个月里破坏程度最高。

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But let storm and avalanche do their worst, and let the pine find only a ledge of vertical precipice to cling to, it will nevertheless grow straight.

可是，尽管风暴和雪崩恣意摧残，尽管松树所能依附的只是陡壁上一块凸出的岩石，它依然长得笔挺。

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What might be called "acute" natural disasters, like Haiti's earthquake or the tsunami of 2004, do their worst violence within hours. They are classed by the number of those they leave dead.

那些可能被称之为急剧性的自然灾害，诸如海地地震或2004年的海啸，则在灾害发生几个小时内达到破坏最高值，人们根据死亡人数对它们进行灾害等级划分。

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Officials in Morocco say it is time to regulate the trans-Mediterranean traffic rather than leave the underground networks to do their worst.

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Three academics, including CFA Institute senior managing director Robert Johnson, say stocks typically do their worst in the second year of a four-year presidential term.

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