I've had a bad piece of news this morning; a fellow whom I have guaranteed 100 pounds has cleared out and left me to pay.

今早我听到一个坏消息，我曾为一个家伙担保100英镑，可他跑了，留下我付债。

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Here is a piece of bad news.

这里有个坏消息。

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He felt dismal after reading a piece of bad news in the newspaper.

他读了报上的一条不好的消息后心情忧郁。

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What about executives who learn a piece of bad news, say when the sales manager tells them a major customer just canceled his order?

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So this may be one more piece of bad news for any company hoping to develop a new cholesterol drug.

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As if all that were not bad enough, another discouraging piece of news comes from America West, a mid-sized airline that the government rescued last year.

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