And if the recession proves more severe and the recovery more anaemic than expected, the eventual outcome could be even worse.

与此同时如果证明经济衰退更加严重并且经济复苏比预期的更无力的话，最终的结果只能会更坏。

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If she insists you must solve your issue alone, then she could be a "Confounder Boss" who ignores problems, which makes them worse.

如果她坚持你必须独自解决问题，那么她就是一个忽视问题的糊涂上司，这会让问题更加严重。

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Kalka also believes that potential homebuyers should consider the fact that the real estate market could be no better or even worse a year from now, so they have to decide if they want to wait it out.

卡拉也相信潜在的购房者应该考虑到从现在起到一年之内房地产可能不会好转甚至是更冷淡的事实，所以他们必须自己决定是否等待情况好转。

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As if the omens could be much worse, Romania's record in European Championship finals is abysmal.

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"Obviously, it could be worse if she was given the death penalty, but it wouldn't have been that much worse, " her husband, Russell Yates, told reporters after the decision.

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But its impact on markets could be even worse than a default, it could be a default on steroids: if it became accepted that membership of the eurozone isn't forever, huge doubts would arise about the true value of hundreds of billions of euros of contracts.

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