What was worse, he was terribly ill.

更糟糕的是，他病得很重。

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What was worse, she lost her parents at the age of twenty.

更糟糕的是，她在20岁时失去了父母。

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What was worse, the stroke caused her brain to began to swell.

更糟糕的是，中风使她的大脑开始肿胀。

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But what was worse was the fact that it was caused by the votes of two southern senators.

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In some sense, what happened was much worse.

从某种意义上，他更糟糕。

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What was worse, he let them move even farther apart.

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What was worse, in many people's eyes, was that the photographs were sold without any consultation with Mallory's surviving descendants.

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What was worse was that the new managers asked them to refresh the strategy that these same consultants had previously developed, which allowed them to start the cycle all over again.

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What was worse was that all the big investors and bankers on Wall Street were investing in these sub-prime loans, so they would pour huge amounts of money into the mortgage industry -- nobody was really seeing whether these mortgages were ones that people were going to have the salary to sustain.

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