How awful to be able to speak in a language but not to write in it— especially English, with its rich vocabulary.

一门语言，会说却不会写，这是多么糟糕的一件事——尤其是英语，它有着丰富的词汇。

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He took another drink of his coffee. "Awful," he said with a grimace.

他又喝了一口咖啡，“太难喝了”，他边说边扮了个怪相。

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It was a no-win situation. Either she pretended she hated Ned and felt awful or admitted she loved him and felt even worse!

这是一个只输无赢的情形。如果她假装讨厌内德，她会觉得痛苦；而如果她承认喜欢他，她会感觉更难受!

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A senior official who spoke to reporters here called the idea to put the tent in Englewood "awful,"

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I have to know an awful a lot more about the intricacies of those particular firms to say.

我得知道更多,关于这些公司的复杂的事情,才能发表意见。

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and go back to change the laundry over and pick it up, and it's really a big pain. It's really awful.

然后走回去把衣服拿出来，真是太痛苦了，真的很烦人。

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Now Russians still have an awful a lot of abortions.

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But there's another reason for thinking that, you know, the Iranians could be so difficult, which is simply put that standing up to the Americans on these is enormously popular for the Iranian mullahs, and also does an awful a lot for Ahmadinejad's popularity.

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Then he looked at periodic savers, folks such as wage earners who save a little bit each paycheck, and found the losses were still awful, a gap of between 18% and 26% over the three decades.

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