worse off

It is difficult to think of how much worse off we would be in the current financial crisis without SWFs.

很难想象如果没有这些主权财富基金，我们在当前金融危机中的状况将会糟糕到何种程度。

"Here is someone worse off than myself, " said the soldier, and he gave the old man his last scrap of bread.

“这个人的处境比我还要悲惨”士兵说，于是将他最后的一片面包给予了这个老人。

If it hadn't been for the boots, Luke's feet would have been worse off than his hands.

要不是有一双靴子，卢克的脚会比他的手伤得更厉害。

it "ensure[s] that the violator is economically worse off than if it had obeyed the law. "

它“确保违法者与守法相比较而言，如果不守法会遭遇严重的经济损失”。

"Truly, " said one of the Hares, "things are not so bad as they seem: " There is always someone worse off than yourself.

一只野兔说：“看来不是很糟，总有人比你自己更差。”

Abolishing job protection makes most workers worse off, so it tends to run into political obstacles.

废除职业保护使多数工人经济拮据，因而会遇到政治上的障碍。

"They seem like idiots for doing this. I feel like you'd be worse off for trying to pull a fast one. "

“他们这么做看起来挺蠢。我感觉，想要搞欺骗那一套只会把情况弄得更糟糕。”

If a husband borrows money from his wife, the family is no worse off.

如果是丈夫向妻子借钱，那么家庭状况并未恶化。

That the gloves were a gift is no longer important: the question is whether you are worse off for having lost them. And you are.

手套是礼物这一点已不再重要。问题在于，丢失手套有没有令你遭受损失。答案是“有”。

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

如果我们没有在某天碰到某位比我们更糟糕的人，这种念头的话，我们还会对人类感兴趣吗？

In some cases they've got it a lot worse off than many of you. But they refused to give up.

在某些情况下，他们的处境比起你们许多人更差。但他们拒绝放弃。

Of course, you and I would be worse off in this situation.

当然，这种情况对你我来说不大妙。

In social and economic matters across the black population as a whole, however, blacks are still much worse off than whites.

在社会和经济事务上，整个黑人群体的处境比白人的要差得多。

The worse off tend to be those left out of this country's economic growth.

恶化的往往是那些被忽略的国家经济发展。

Nor can one discount that many companies would have been worse off not doing a deal, even if they're not in a good place today.

而且，人们也无法否认，即便眼下这些公司处境不佳，但如果不进行合并交易，许多公司的情况可能会更糟。

Unsurprisingly, a growing majority of Americans have been telling pollsters that they expect their children to be worse off than they are.

很自然地，大多数美国民众一直在和民意调查员说，他们预料他们子女的生活会比他们还要糟。

But it taught me not to pity myself, because others were worse off and to get on with what I still could do.

但是，它教会了我不要怜悯自己，因为其他人的情况更糟，继续做我仍然可以做的事情。

One of the big pressures facing households is high inflation, which has left most people worse off in real terms.

家庭面临的其中一个巨大压力是高通胀，这让大多数人实质变得更加糟糕。

Once markets stabilise, Wall Street will start to wonder if it is better or worse off without its standalone investment banks.

一旦市场企稳，华尔街就会考虑缺乏独立投行模式对其有利还是有害。

In some cases they've got it a lot worse off than many of you.

在有些情况下，他们的挑战要大过你们中的很多人，但是他们绝不屈服。