Businesses have suddenly become a lot glummer.

商业活动突然令人相当悲观。

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Countries to the east and south tend to be poorer, glummer and worse-run.

处于东南部的国家的处境更加贫穷、无望且管理混乱。

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The IMF has since become much glummer: this week it forecast growth of just 0.5%.

如今国际货币基金组织已经变得更加悲观：本周预测仅有0.5 %。

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Perhaps most telling, builders have recently become a lot glummer.

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But in as much as the American left is now a coalition of groups that define themselves as the victims of social and economic forces, and in as much as its leaders encourage people to feel helpless and aggrieved, he thinks they make America a glummer place.

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