The row houses had been darkened by the rain and looked meaner and grimmer than ever

一排排房屋被雨水浇湿,看上去比以前更加破旧阴暗了

||1:Virtually everywhere else, however, the news is grim and getting grimmer .||2:The euro zone, the world's second-biggest economic area, seems to be falling from a feeble recovery back into outright recession as Germany hits the skids.||3:Shockingly weak industrial production and export figures mean Germany's GDP is likely to shrink for the second consecutive quarter—a popular definition of recession.||4:Japan, the world's third-biggest economy, may also be on the edge of a downturn, because April's rise in the consumption tax is hurting spending more than expected.||5:Russia's and Brazil's economies are stagnant, at best.||6:Even in China, still growing at a suspiciously smooth 7.5% a year, there are worries about a property bust, a credit bubble and a fall in productivity.

||1:但在世界其他地方，关于经济情况的新闻一个比一个糟糕。||2:由于德国经济下滑，拖累欧元区这个世界第二大经济区从步履蹒跚的复苏直接退回到衰退之中。||3:工业生产和出口数据出人意料的疲软，这就表明德国的GDP很可能会连续两个季度萎缩——而这是经济衰退的公认定义。||4:日本是世界第三大经济体，也可能处于经济不景气的边缘，因为4月份上调消费税对于支出的抑制比想象的更严重。||5:俄罗斯和巴西的经济，就算往好了说也是处于停滞的状态。||6:中国仍然以7.5%的年增长率平稳发展，这个数据值得怀疑，即便如此，其房地产崩溃、信贷泡沫和生产率下降仍然令人担忧。

||1:It is a rite of passage for every new French president to head to French-speaking Africa and reaffirm faith in la Francophonie.||2:So it was with Francois Hollande, who has just visited Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo.||3:Like his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, he said “francafrique”—the cosy post-colonial ties of party financing, arms, contracts and influence—was over and that human rights were paramount.||4:He praised the shared use of French, “language of liberty”.||5:But behind the warm words lie grimmer concerns, the biggest being the entrenchment of terror networks in the al-Qaeda-held Sahel.

||1:每个新上任的法国总统都要经历这样一个仪式：走访非洲讲法语的国家，并重申其对法语区的忠诚。||2:法国总统弗朗索瓦·奥朗德刚刚访问了塞内加尔和刚果民主共和国。||3:和前任总统尼科拉·萨科奇一样，他强调“法兰西非洲”——这个包含政府融资、武器输送、契约协定、施加影响在内的”亲密“的后殖民关系——将不复存在，人权才是至高无上的。||4:他对共同使用法语的做法大加赞赏，称之为“语言自由”。||5:但是在这一番温暖人心的话语背后却隐藏着深切的担忧，尤其是针对萨赫勒地区的基地组织网络的防卫工事。

||1:In titchier towns where local television stations are planned, such as Cambridge and York, the economics look grimmer .||2:Small businesses increasingly advertise online.||3:Simon Terrington, an analyst, thinks channels may survive through the benevolence of local bigwigs and the generosity of volunteers.||4:“People get involved in media for no money,” he points out.||5:Regional studios will test that.

||1:已规划的地方电视台在例如剑桥和约克这样的小城镇中，经济问题似乎更加严峻。||2:小型企业不断增加网络广告的份额。||3:分析家特林顿认为，本地频道要靠当地权贵的手下留情和志愿者的慷慨解囊才能幸免于难。||4:他指出，“人们被无偿的卷入了传媒”。||5:地方电视会检测这一说法。

||1:Consumption still looks tame by international standards.||2:Intake per person is around half that of Germany or France, according to the World Health Organisation.||3:But the countrywide statistics hide a grimmer picture.||4:More than half the Chinese population is teetotal.||5:Those who do drink often do so to great excess.Male Chinese drinkers down far more than Japanese ones, and almost as much as notoriously sozzled British, Australian or Irish boozers.||6:Binge-drinking is prevalent and high-risk drinking has reached “epidemic proportions” in China, reckons Hao Wei of Central South University in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province.

||1:以国际标准而言，中国的酒水消费还比较节制。||2:根据世界卫生组织的数据，中国的人均饮酒量只有德国或法国的一般左右。||3:但全国范围的统计数据掩盖了一副糟糕的图景。||4:半数的中国人滴酒不沾，而喝酒的人则经常过量饮酒。||5:中国男人们喝醉的情况比起日本人要多得多，几乎和臭名昭著的英国、澳大利亚醉汉还有爱尔兰酒鬼们旗鼓相当。||6:来自位于湖南省会长沙的中南大学的郝伟认为，在中国，过量饮酒十分盛行，而且高风险饮酒像“流行病一样”。

||1:The change in attitudes to homosexuality in many countries—not just the West but also Latin America, China and other places—is one of the wonders of the world (see article).||2:This week America’s Supreme Court gave gay marriage another big boost, by rejecting several challenges to it; most Americans already live in states where gays can wed.||3:But five countries still execute gay people: Iran hangs them; Saudi Arabia stones them.||4:Gay sex is illegal in 78 countries, and a few have recently passed laws that make gay life even grimmer .||5:The gay divide is one of the world’s widest.||6:What caused it.And will tolerance eventually spread.

||1:在许多国家不只是西方还有拉丁美洲，中国和其他地方态度上对同性恋的改变是世界奇迹之一（另见文）。||2:本周美国最高法院通过拒绝几个挑战者对同性恋婚姻认可上有了另一个大的提升；大多数美国人生活是我州同性恋都可以结婚。||3:但仍有五个国家对同性恋者执刑：伊朗的绞刑；沙特阿拉伯用石头扔他们。||4:同性恋在78个国家仍然是非法的，最近有一些国家通过法律使他们生活更加快乐。||5:同性恋将是世界上最大的分歧之一。||6:这是什么引起的呢？宽容最终会蔓延吗。

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"We have really enjoyed seven to eight years of a great environment, " she said, but hospitals are now preparing for a much grimmer future.

“我们在繁荣环境下过了七八年好日子，”她说，但是医院正准备迎来一个愁云惨淡的未来。

America's role in Cambodia became even grimmer duringthe 1980s, after the Khmer Rouge were driven from power by a Vietnameseinvasion force.

19世纪80年代当赤柬被越南入侵力量赶下台后美国在柬埔寨的角色变得更加可怕。

For the million Spanish families who saw a wage-earner lose their job in 2008, Christmas was a lot grimmer .

2008年，西班牙数以百万计的家庭亲眼目睹了靠工资度日的人们下岗待业，圣诞节更是雪上加霜。

THE prognoses for Pakistan's future grow grimmer by the day.

巴基斯坦未来局势日益严峻。

From this point of view, Russia is closer to a grimmer version of Italy than it is to an updated Stalinism.

从这一点上看，俄罗斯更像是阴冷版的意大利，而非升级版的斯大林政权。

But two months into the global financial crisis, things look much grimmer for China.

但陷入全球金融危机两个月之后，中国的形势看上去严峻了许多。

Things look much grimmer for those in climates that are already quite warm enough.

对于那些气候已经相当暖和的地方来说，形势似乎更为严峻。

Reality suggests a grimmer diagnosis, but not one for which either the left or the right has produced a cure.

而现实则更为残酷，无论是左翼还是右翼阵营都未能提供解决之道。

Despite the city's towering skyscrapers and ultra-modern Millennium Park, underground the story is grimmer .

尽管芝加哥摩天大楼鳞次栉比，又有着超现代的千禧公园，可地下设施却惨不忍睹。

The information from the Iowa Daily Erosion Project paints a grimmer picture than a recent assessment by federal officials.

来自爱荷华州土地侵蚀项目日报的信息勾画出一幅比近期联邦官员的评估报告更残酷的画面。

Meanwhile, the long-term fiscal outlook grows ever grimmer .

另外，美国未来长期的财政状况也正变得更令人担忧。

The fiscal outlook is grimmer than before, therefore we should spend less on health care reform than I used to think.

目前严峻的财政形势超过了以往任何时候，所以在医疗改革中我们花的钱要少于我过去的预期才行。

The fate of girls on the streets is even grimmer than that of boys.

那些流落街头的女孩子的命运比男孩子们要悲惨得多。

Let us hope that some of the grimmer aspects of this decade are codas to the last century.

让我们衷心希望，过去十年中的一些坎坷只是20世纪乐章的尾声。

If the long term is grim, the short term is grimmer .

如果长期形势严峻，那目前的短期形势更令人担忧。

Those seeking even grimmer times can visit the Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, where they can see old KGB cells.

如果有人嫌这些景点还不够“刺激”，可以去参观位于维尔纽斯的种族屠杀博物馆。那里你还可以看到以前克格勃的牢房。

Now, many seem to be in free fall and the news is likely to get grimmer .

如今，部分国家通货膨胀的速度就像自由落体，新闻中的批评之声更加尖锐。

The attached email is grimmer still.

所附的电子邮件更加沉闷。

Although the panic in the credit markets shows signs of abating, the economic news gets ever grimmer .

信贷市场的恐慌已经表现出了经济硬度降低的迹象，然而经济的整体情况更加恐怖。

The city was facing "grimmer challenges than in the Asian financial turmoil, " Xu Zongheng said.

许宗衡表示，深圳市正在面临“比亚洲金融危机更加严峻的挑战。”

For one thing, the starting point was even grimmer than realised last May.

一方面，年初数字甚至比去年五月的更不乐观。

In Europe and Japan the situation is far grimmer .

在欧洲和日本，形式远不止是严峻。

In Asia the mood has been grimmer as Japan and Hong Kong have lost about half of their value.

在亚洲，市场氛围更为严酷，日本和香港市场的市值已跌去一半左右。

completely raduced grimmer

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