We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

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The laws can't do anything about making people better or worse, it takes them as they are and then it deals with them accordingly.

现今的法律做不到让人,变得更好或更坏,它让人们维持原样,并且循规蹈矩的处理事情

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The interaction effects make things even worse, and we can't overlook those negative interaction effects.

相互影响让事情变得更坏，我们不能忽视这种负面的相互影响。

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Yeah, there are actually some ways in which the combination ends up becoming worse.

事实上有的情况下,组合会导致变得更坏。

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