That is a bad book by any standards.

不论根据什么标准，那都是一部坏书。

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A bad book is like a bad friend, might give you hurt.

不好的书也象不好的朋友一样，可能会把你伤害。

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"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one" (Aldous Huxley).

“写一本坏书需要的劳动量和写一本好书的一样多”(奥尔德斯·赫胥黎)。

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are slow to do a second edition of their book because if they got it out this year it would be a bad year to get it out because everything is changing.

他们怕自己的书出版时,恰逢乱世,因为现在,整个世界都在变。

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Was it fear of setting out any positions that New Labour could one day find embarrassing that made Mr Giddens write such a bad book?

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However, Dr. Goldacre takes a slightly different position a bit later in the book (Bad Pharma, p. 243) in a section where he chastises the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK for wasting money by not using generics.

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