"If you didn't sign it," said the King, "that only makes the matter worse."

“如果你没有签名，”国王说，“那只会使事情更糟。”

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He contrived to make the matter worse.

他图谋使事情恶化。

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To make the matter worse, it began to rain.

使事情更糟的，天又下起雨来了。

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To make matter worse,according to Sosa, the government has fired thousands of technicians from the state-owned oil company,PDVSA and replaced them with workers whose primary qualification is their loyalty to President Chavez.

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And the fact of the matter is, some of you will start off writing worse papers than that.

问题是，有些人开始时的论文会比那更糟。

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Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

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Because of Washington's partisan fiscal paralysis, no matter how much worse the near-term outlook gets, Congress is unlikely to come to the rescue soon with another dollop of tax cuts or spending increases.

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While the EU debt crisis is far from being fully repaired, the market place has reckoned the matter is not getting worse and traders are now focusing on other matters.

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In terms of regional influence, giant Brazil surely will matter more--for better or worse under laborite President Lula.

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