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If you call a place a hellhole, you mean that it is extremely unpleasant, usually because it is dirty and uncomfortable. 地狱般的地方; 肮脏的地方; 令人厌恶的地方
So Forbes.com asked the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), which surveys hundreds of defense attorneys and corporate executives every year for its report on litigation abuse on "Judicial Hellholes, " to list the places identified by the largest number of survey respondents as the worst possible places to be a defendant in particular types of lawsuits.