In recent years, we have all been exposed to dire media reports concerning the impending demise of global coal and oil reserves.

近年来，我们都接触到有关全球煤炭和石油储备即将枯竭的可怕媒体报道。

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The people here are reduced to dire poverty because of (the) natural disasters.

这里的人们由于自然灾害而穷不聊生。

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Anger can be destructive, even if it doesn't lead to dire consequences.

即使不会造成可怕的后果，愤怒也是具有破坏性的。

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With the family in a dire situation, the woman had to ask her husband and mother-in-law for permission to sell the tapestries and crafts she could produce.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

The defenses had to do with necessity, their dire circumstance, and, implicitly at least, the idea that numbers matter.

有人说他们在那样的处境下，不得已而为之，并且暗含了“人数重要“的理念。

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"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

They should not, therefore, jump to dire conclusions or panic and take drastic measures.

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The broadcast said Syrian President Bashir al Assad said the unilateral action of one power could lead to dire consequences.

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The reality is that most states are in difficult to dire financial condition and the temptation to add this sales tax revenue to their coffers will prove irresistible.

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