For most of the last decade, this trend has been upward, except for the most severe periods of credit crunch.

近十年的大多数时间里，这一趋势是向上的，除了信用危机最为严重的时期之外。

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As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy, triggering the most severe financial crisis since the 1920s.

随着拍卖商叫价，纽约华尔街历史最悠久的银行之一雷曼兄弟申请破产，引发了自20世纪20年代以来最严重的金融危机。

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Competition is usually most severe among close relatives with similar demands on the environment.

对环境有相似需求的近亲之间的竞争通常最为激烈。

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The most severe tornadoes can reach wind speeds of three hundred twenty kilometers an hour or more.

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And, guess who the most severe members of that committee are? It's the students, your peers who are outraged at that kind of behavior.

猜猜委员会中谁最为严厉,是学生，你们的同伴对这种行为义愤填膺呀。

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It's a huge price to pay in a pass-no-record first semester class . And, you know who is most severe on the committee on discipline?

这个代价太大了，只为了,第一次学期通过一门无记录的课程,你们知道着纪律委员会,谁最为严厉吗？

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That is hardly a view of modern China held by even its most severe critics.

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There are circumstances when they might but not the most severe ones facing U. S. business.

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Respondents were classified according to the most severe difficulty they said they had experienced.

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