I was in a terrible state because nobody could understand why I had this illness.

我极度不安，因为没人能明白我为什么得了这种病。

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The main hospital is in a terrible state.

中心医院的情况更为可怕。

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If I didn't get rid of it all, I'd be in a terrible state.

如果不把它们全部摆脱，我将会入于极度糟糕的状态之中。

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Without question he's the most terrifying of all of the mourners, and he gives an angry, powerful, vitriolic speech about the terrible state of England - the terrible state of the Church of England and, as a consequence, of the terrible state of England in 1637.

毫无疑问他是所有送葬者中最可怕的，他做了一番愤怒，有力，刻薄的讲话,大谈英格兰的糟糕状况,-1637年间英格兰教堂的糟糕状况，及由此产生的英格兰的糟糕状况。

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But one argument that can be made is that things things were so terrible and so out of control in the earlier period that the strengthening of the state is something that people saw as beneficial.

然而有这样一个观点,在动荡不定的战争年代,一个极权国家是有利于国家的发展的

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"The plane was in a terrible state when we first saw it, " he said.

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And though the economy is still in a terrible state, it could now be through the worst.

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But Ms Pryce said she had been in "a terrible state" when she had been speaking to journalists.

BBC: Vicky Pryce felt 'practically suicidal' when Huhne left