Things look bad for you my friend.

我的朋友，这看来对你不大妙。

youdao

I know things look bad, but all is not lost.

我知道情况看起来不妙，但是究竟还有一线希望。

youdao

But things don't look as bad as they looked 3 or 5 years back.

但与3或5年前比起来,情况已经缓和很多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

If we look back at that long, open-ended list of things that were good or bad, we'll find that mos of the things on that list are instrumentally good.

再看那个长长的没有结尾的,好的或坏的东西的名单，我们会发现上面很多东西,都是有好的利用价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If things look bad at the beginning of 2013, there should be reassessment of fiscal policy.

BBC: Mr Cameron in Davos - and bother from the IMF

Yet even though things look bad now, a default probably does not loom in the near future.

ECONOMIST: Venezuela's economy

When things look bad, as in Malaysia, the guidelines become rules.

ECONOMIST: Situations vacant