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If you neglect acting on the Word -- no matter how much you hear it -- when trouble comes your way, it may be devastating.

如果你忽视行出这话---无论你听了有多少---当麻烦来到你面前，它将是毁灭性的。

He said Darfur in western Sudan is still reeling from a devastating war exacerbated by a shortage of water and fertile land.

他还提到苏丹西部的达尔富尔仍在遭受一场伴随水资源短缺和土地贫瘠加剧的毁灭性的战争。

First you will write letters for a while, through me. It is devastating to the child to experience a second abandonment.

你们先通信一段时间，由我来做中间人。让孩子再次感受被抛弃是很惨忍的。

Nobody wants to see a repeat of the devastating crash of the early 1980s, which drove hundreds of farms and lenders out of business.

没有人想看到20世纪80年代初毁灭性崩溃的那一幕重演，迫使数百农田和放贷者无法运行。

Yet the financial giant's leaders are hardly alone in trying to harness the force of a devastating crisis to revive a wounded company.

然而，这头金融巨鳄的领导们在毁灭性危机中力挽狂澜，竭力挽救伤痕累累的公司的行动中绝不是孤军奋战。

It was devastating to see the simple plywood platform with a rail around it, where the families of the victims had left notes to them.

看着简单的夹板和围栏搭成的平台，真是很让人触动上面还有遇害者的家属留下的话语。

This would alter the distribution of sunlight across the surface of the planet, devastating our finely balanced weather systems.

那地球表面日照的分布则会与现今不同，破坏了现有已运行良好的平衡气候系统。

He said the European Union, which France currently heads, could not allow such a terribly devastating and unacceptable war.

他说，欧盟不能容许发生这种具有极端毁灭性的战争，这是不能接受的。法国目前担任欧盟轮值主席国。

Something just as devastating as the quake was the tsunami -- this giant ocean wave -- that the quake caused.

和地震同样具有破坏力的还有海啸——地震引起巨大的海浪。

But he was not prepared for the devastating enemy that met him in Moscow ---- the raw, bitter, bleak Russian winter.

但他没有料到在莫斯科他会遭遇劲敌——俄罗斯阴冷凄苦的寒冬。

Writings confirm that this period was a difficult one for Norse settlements in the area, marked by devastating crop failures.

历史记录证实，这一时期对这一地区的北欧定居者来说是相当艰难的时期，最显著的是灾难性的农作物歉收。

That said, the prospect is nothing like as "devastating" as Mr Panetta has warned.

尽管如此，如此大幅削减军事预算的后果也绝非帕内塔所警告的那样具有“灾难性”。

As I said, these consequences probably won't be as bad as the devastating recessions that racked third-world victims of the same syndrome.

如我所言，这些后果极有可能不至于变得像袭击第三世界的破坏性衰退那么糟糕，虽然从表面上看其症状都是一样。

But imagine being told that you're infertile. For people who planned their life around the idea of parenthood, the news can be devastating.

但是设想一下你被告知患了不孕不育症的情形——对于那些生活计划围绕着养育子女展开的人来说，这样的消息称得上是毁灭性的。

Given the likely and devastating chaos, it would be a mistake for a country to choose to leave.

考虑到离开可能发生的灾难性混乱，国家选择离开欧盟可能是个错误。

It was a devastating attack, forcing Downing into a wheelchair for most of the year, and causing him to lose nearly 100 pounds.

这是一个毁灭性的打击，迫使轮椅唐宁为这一年的大部分，并导致他失去了近100磅。

Maybe it would not be such a bad thing for wars to be so devastating to both sides that they would not happen.

敌对双方都不愿意看到毁灭性的场面出现，对战争而言也许不是个坏事。

At least, it made me wonder whether "youth ageism" really was the devastating problem that some experts claim it to be.

至少，它让我揣测：“青年歧视”是否像一些专家所称的那样，真是个灾难性问题。

To hear officers openly arguing "this war cannot be won" would be devastating for morale.

听军方官员公开辩论《此战仍可胜》，士气将会大大受挫。

'Just thinking of him being sick, for someone in your family to be that sick, it's just devastating. '

‘只是想想他在生病，想想家里的人会那样病重就足以让人崩溃了。’