Overall things looked pretty bad.

所有事情都十分糟糕。

youdao

Things are pretty slow in my section tonight. Just bad luck.

我负责的那一块今晚生意很淡。运气真是不好。

youdao

So far we can conclude that Google is pretty bad at naming things.

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When Sheikh Hasina, leader of the Awami League and current prime minister, and Khaleda Zia, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), alternated in power in the 1990s, things were pretty bad, but in the past decade they have got worse.

ECONOMIST: Bangladesh��s toxic politics

The picture was pretty ugly, but then it seemed things weren't so bad after all.

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