They said they had fixed the car, but it's now running even worse than before.

他们说他们已经把车子修理好了，可是现在开起来比以前更差了。

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It is far better to turn up twenty minutes early (immediate good impression), than to go running in red faced and flustered with seconds to spare, or even worse – turn up late.

提前20分钟远远好于在腾出的几分钟内满脸通红地赶到,甚至是迟到。

youdao

But Turkey's other main parties are doing even worse: the same poll shows Mr Ecevit's Democratic Left running last, behind the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party, which also faces a possible ban.

ECONOMIST: Turkey

He settles in an old cowboy bunkhouse without electricity or running water near the town of Woolybucket where he proves a poor salesman of pig hell and an even worse liar.

ECONOMIST: New fiction