A FINANCIAL crisis on the scale of the one unfolding on Wall Street would be terrible at any juncture.

席卷华尔街的如此规模的金融危机发生在任何一个节点都是灾难。

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A FINANCIAL crisis on the scale of the one unfolding on Wall Street would be terrible at any juncture. But the timing of this one is astonishingly bad.

任何达到现今席卷华尔街的规模的金融风暴都是可怕的，但这一次危机发生的时间使之变得惊人地严重。

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To many, the costs may not even appear to be financial at all, but merely aesthetic—a terrible shame, but nothing to do with money.

对许多人来说，这些损失可能根本不是财务上的问题，而仅仅是审美上的问题——这是一种可怕的耻辱，但与金钱无关。

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The abandonment of such a study or its adulteration for current political purposes would be a terrible loss for all of humanity, and at the base, at the root of that civilization stood the Greeks.

如果出于政治的目的而对此段历史,视而不见甚至完全摒弃,这对全人类,将是一个巨大的损失,追根溯源,这一切都根植于希腊文明

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Another finding is that some art can be a terrible investment, at least in the short term.

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If you are used to drinking California chardonnays, or almost any New World chardonnays (Chile, Australia, etc.), you may be shaking your head at my choice, and rightfully so, because these would be a terrible pairing.

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If you feel the urge to pick up some scratch-offs at the corner store, at least be aware what a terrible proposition the lottery is.

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