Time said its "person of the year" selection was the "person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year."

《时代》称，“年度人物”评选的是当年“极大影响媒体和人们生活(无论好坏)，以及能体现年度大事的个人或团体”。

youdao

This is always a distortion of reality, for people are not the captives or victims of others---they are free agents, working out their own destinies for good or for ill.

这种事总是歪曲了事实真相，因为谁都不是给别人当俘虏或牺牲品——人都是自由行事的，不论命运是好是坏，都由自己来作主。

youdao

This is always adistortion of reality, for people are not the captives or victims of others—they are free agents, working out their own destinies for good or for ill.

这种事总是歪曲了事实真相，因为谁都不是给别人当俘虏或牺牲品——人都是自由行事的，不论命运是好是坏，都由自己来作主。

youdao

It seemed to me also that every living African, whether in good or ill health, is prey to many enemies of health that would interact one upon the other in many ways within one human body, Critics feared if President Mbeki appeared to doubt the link between HIV and the disease, people would not practice safe sex and use condoms.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

We won't see the true will of the players, for good or ill, until preorders begin.

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For good or ill, the home of everyday low prices has become America's biggest political football.

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As such, businesses have more capacity to do good or ill than any other human institution.

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