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Job prospects were grim though, and she said she'd take anything, even "working for a family" (a euphemism for domestic service).

工作前景很糟糕，她说她什么也做不了，“对家庭也一样”（家政服务的委婉说法）。

The grim figure leaves no doubt that serious pain awaits in the form of increased poverty and unemployment.

毫无疑问，这个可怕的数字将带来新增失业和贫穷，令人们备受煎熬。

As the NBA draft approached, the grim truth about Yao Ming's(notes) broken left foot hung like an anvil over the Houston Rockets.

随着NBA选秀的临近，姚明左脚伤势的严峻事实像一块铁砧悬在休斯敦火箭上空。

All come determined to be happy, with the kind of grim resolve with which one determines not to make a fuss at the dentist's .

大家来时都打定了主意要寻欢作乐，仿佛咬紧牙齿，决意不要在牙医生那里大惊小怪一般。

In the face of this grim picture, you might have expected policy makers to realize that they haven't yet done enough to promote recovery.

面对如此惨淡之景象，你或许期望政策制定者意识到他们没有做足够的事情促进经济复苏。

Even with ideal circumstances, the possibility would be grim that she could lose this amount of weight in such a short period.

就算是在最理想的情况下，她能在这么短的时间里减去那么多体重的几率也是很小的。

So I stood and stared, and felt a sort of grim satisfaction in the sense of my own loneliness.

我就这么站着，凝视着，对自己的孤苦伶仃感到一种残忍的满足。

Part of the experiment is to determine how much grim information people actually want to know about their own bodies.

而试验的一部分是为了确定人们对于自己身体的不良信息，真正想知道多少。

was to abduct Mary and take her to his grim castle in Dunbar.

是把玛丽劫持到他在邓巴那可怕的城堡

Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy, but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim, black stone.

建筑物的大都很古老了，墙壁上爬满了深绿色的常春藤；可是某些却是最近刚砌成的，材料是阴森的黑色石块。

The fear was that if these were to unwind rapidly, with confidence evaporating in the US economy and the dollar, the outcome would be grim.

人们担心，一旦贸易失衡状况迅速纾解，外界对美国经济和美元的信心消散，后果将相当严重。

Finally, not to put too grim reflection on it, but life is uncertain. We do not know what tomorrow will bring.

最后要记住的是对于现在的工作不要过分纠结，但是生活是无常的，我们不知道明天会发生些什么。

Well, at this point, Greece, where the crisis began, is no more than a grim sideshow.

在这个时候，危机开始地希腊只不过是一出令人不快的穿插节目。

This was no grim duty to which I stoically resigned, however.

然而，这并非我须坚忍顺从的痛苦职责。

It is also easy to see how further inaction, half-steps, and wrong steps by leaders could make these and other grim turns much more likely.

很容易看出，领导人的继续不作为，三心二意，走错路会使这些以及其它许多骇人局势变得可能。

Because of his association with the underworld, Hades is often thought of as a grim figure.

由于他是冥界的掌管者，哈迪斯通常被认为是一个严酷的神。

Round and round here went the enormous revolutions of the dark colossal water- wheel , grim with its one immutable purpose .

那只黑黑的大水车轮转来转去转个不停，象是它有一种不可改变的可怕的意图。

But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast.

只有总数发展到若干个可怕的数字时，才会撤回晚间新闻的头版头条。

The reality of life is always so grim, Laksa sleep eat and drink, fuel, which do not want you to worry about the same?

而现实的人生总是那么严峻，吃喝拉撒睡，油盐酱醋柴，哪一样不要你操心？

Imagine, though, how grim things would have been if yesterday's announcement had instead been a presidential no-show.

想象一下，如果昨天总统未作出宣言而是放了大家鸽子，事实将多么严酷。