It is a grievous affair to my poor girls, you must confess.

你得承认，这对于我可怜的女儿们真是件不幸的事。

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Linton had slid from his seat on to the hearthstone, and lay writhing in the mere perverseness of an indulged plague of a child, determined to be as grievous and harassing as it can.

林惇从他的椅子上滑到炉前石板上，躺在那里扭来扭去，就像一个任性的死缠人的孩子在撒赖，故意要尽可能地作出悲哀和受折磨的样子。

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He had been the victim of a grievous injustice.

他曾遭受极不公正的待遇。

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He responds to this grievous loss privately by taking it on himself, by seeking to master it himself, and specifically as a worker.

他私下里对失去孩子的痛苦的反应,是自己承受，努力地自己承受，尤其是作为一名工人。

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Even before it had started, Angola 2010 suffered a grievous blow, when a rebel faction attacked the Togolese team as they travelled into the northern enclave of Cabinda.

BBC: Angola 2010: Tragedy and triumph

After all, Talbott has with his pronouncements repeated a grievous error made by the Bush Administration concerning Mikhail Gorbachev: A Kremlin leader reputed to be committed to reform is made the determinant of U.S. policy toward Russia (and, for that matter, its neighbors and former satellites).

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He is outshone by Jude Law, whose violent disappearance, halfway through the picture, is a grievous wound.

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