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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
That means that all the increase went to a few at the top: most Americans are worse off.
也就是说,所有收入的增加都汇集在最有钱的少数人手里:大多数美国人都变得比以前穷。
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。
But there really wasn't much to consider-i couldn't end up any worse off than I already was.
不过我实在没有多少去顾忌的——我的处境已经不可能再坏了。
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。
According to the think-tank, 1.8m low-earning couples are worse off because they live together.
根据智库专家的说法,180万的低收入夫妇会因两人在一起而更加贫穷。
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。
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。
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 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。
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。
I realize that no matter what I'm dealing with, there's somebody else out there who has it a littel bit worse off.
我也发现,不管我怎么样应对,身边总有一些人是在退步。
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。
Instead, it is the nation's close integration with the United States that has left it worse off than its Latin American peers.
相反,他与美国利益的紧密结合导致其经济恶化的状况较之其它拉美伙伴更甚。
Despite now being "in the cloud," the application is probably worse off than it was before. Consider the following points.
尽管“在云中”,但应用程序的性能可能还不如以前。
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?
Piers Steel defines procrastination as willingly deferring something even though you expect the delay to make you worse off.
皮尔斯·斯蒂尔将拖延症定义为,出于自愿地推迟某事,尽管你知道这样的耽搁会让你更加难受。
In social and economic matters across the black population as a whole, however, blacks are still much worse off than whites.
然而,就整体而言,在社会和经济层面上,黑人的境况与白人相去甚远。
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。
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。
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