Europe, where mortgage markets are fully private, is no worse-off.
在抵押市场完全私有化的欧洲,情况也不比这里更糟糕。
But there were other people worse off than me at the hospital, linked up to respirators and unable to walk.
但是,医院里有些人情况比我还糟,他们接着人工呼吸机,无法走动。
One of government's primary duties is the redistribution of income, so that the better off can help the worse off out of poverty.
政府的主要职责之一就是收入的重新分配,这样富裕的人能帮助贫穷的人摆脱贫困。
For an increasing number of kids, the extra time and money spent pursuing a college diploma will leave them worse off than they were before they set foot on campus.
对于越来越多的孩子来说,为了追求一张大学文凭而额外花费在学习上的时间和金钱会使他们的情况变得比踏入校园前更糟。
A one-point rise in immigration made the native-born slightly worse off in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.
在奥地利、比利时、德国、卢森堡、荷兰、瑞典和瑞士,移民人数每增加一个百分点,本国出生的人的境况就会恶化一点点。
If senders do not add stamps, you are no worse off for checking; you just aren't better off, either.
如果发送者没有添加戳记,那么您的境况不会因为进行检验而变得更糟;也不会因此变得更好。
"When people feel like they're worse off than they were last year, it's a happiness challenge," Rubin notes.
“当人们感觉自己的境况比前一年糟糕时,幸福就变得困难。”鲁宾指出。
Pareto efficiency means that no one can be made better off without someone becoming worse off.
帕累托有效是指没有哪个人的境况可以在所有其他人的境况都不变差的情况下有所改善。
Not only is it impossible to turn back the tide of globalization, but efforts to do so can make us worse off.
不仅全球化的大潮不可能逆转,而且那些不切实际的做法只能使我们的生活变得更加糟糕。
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
如果我们没有在某天碰到某位比我们更糟糕的人,这种念头的话,我们还会对人类感兴趣吗?
But if it means their children are dumped in front of the telly at a cheap childminder, the kids may be worse off than if they were at home with mum.
但是这如果意味着他们的孩子被扔在电视机前,由一个便宜的保姆看管,那么,这些孩子也许还不如与母亲一起呆在家里。
This is one of the reasons why so many spiritual entrepreneurs are worse off than starving artists.
这是为什么许多精神企业家比精神匮乏的艺人还差的众多原因之一。
However, as the comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were fond of saying, there's always someone worse off than yourself.
然而,就像喜剧演员皮特·库克和达德利。摩尔喜欢说的那样,总会有人的境况比你不如。
If a firm decided to buy as many AMD chips as possible, it could end up worse off since it might then have to pay more for the chips purchased from Intel.
如果一家公司决定购买尽可能多的AMD芯片,它的结果会更糟,因为它将不得不花更多的钱去购买英特尔的芯片。
You can compromise your job, ruin your business, endanger your relationships, etc and end up worse off than you intended, because of uncontrolled anger.
难以受控的愤怒可以使你放弃自己的工作,毁掉自己的生意,危及人际关系等,甚至比你想象的更糟糕的形式。
When researchers ask people whether they would rather be relatively richer than their peers even if that means they are absolutely worse off, the answer is yes.
当研究者询问人们,是否他们更愿意宁肯变得比其同辈相对的富有,即使这意味着他们的生活状况绝对下降,回答是肯等的——愿意。
Now, some are saying he exaggerated the chance of success and that the surgery left them worse off.
现在,有人说他夸大了成功的几率而其手术产生了更严重的后遗症。
If it hadn’t, we’d be much worse off today.
如果失去这一点,我们的处境会比今天糟糕的多。
So it is difficult for companies to determine with any accuracy whether they would be better or worse off by outsourcing work.
因此,对于公司而言,很难精确地决定外包工作是否会带给他们期望的效益。
Only 18% of Americans think they are worse off than their parents were at the same age.
只有18 %的美国人认为自己比父母在同一年龄时的境况更差。
Homeowners are worse off, too, because the value of one of their vital assets is eroding.
有房者的情况也会变糟,因为他们主要资产之一的房子的价值正在贬值。
That means some buyers of CDSs, who were betting on default, may paradoxically end up worse off.
这意味着某些押宝在信用违约互换违约的买家将最终承受更多损失。
Its residents are worse off than those of Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
当地居民生活状况比尼日尔、乍得和喀麦隆等国还要困苦。
Scientists from Concordia University found that people who compared themselves to successful friends and neighbors caught more colds than people who did the same with those they considered worse off.
康科迪亚大学的科学家发现那些惯于同成功的朋友邻居比较的人感冒的次数比那些习惯“比下”的人多。
Some types of proceedings can even be adversely affected if televised, making society worse off rather than giving it a benefit.
有些类型的程序如果进行转播,则甚至会受到负面影响,使社会处于更糟糕的境地,而不是带来任何裨益。
Some types of proceedings can even be adversely affected if televised, making society worse off rather than giving it a benefit.
有些类型的程序如果进行转播,则甚至会受到负面影响,使社会处于更糟糕的境地,而不是带来任何裨益。
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