Waiting for perfect is a lousy strategy.

等待想法酝酿成熟，估计也发霉了。

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For stock markets, it took last week’s lousy earnings figures from US banks to ram home the economic pain the credit crisis could cause.

对股市而言，上周美国银行公布的糟糕收益数据充分表明了信贷危机可能对经济造成的伤害。

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On economic grounds, unless surviving trade impediments are broken down, it makes for pretty lousy policy.

而从经济角度看，除非现有的贸易障碍被打破，否则就会导致相当糟糕的政策。

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And it’s not only politicians who are lousy at handling money.

而且你会发现，并只是那些政治家不会花钱。

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But the broader picture is also disappointing. HSBC makes fantastic returns in Hong Kong, lousy ones in America and mediocre ones elsewhere.

更广一点的景象也依然令人失望，汇丰在香港取得巨大回报，但在美国表现糟糕，另一些区域表现平庸。

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Wage figures are also lousy . There has recently been much concern about the faster pace of increase in average urban earnings.

工资水平数据一样无用，因为人均城市人口收入的快速增长，这个数据近期倍受关注。

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Never mind that Iraqi mobile services are lousy and businessmen have to use different phones for different parts of the country.

怪不得伊拉克的手机运营服务这样的糟糕，这导致商人们在伊拉克的不同地区时，被迫使用不同的手机。

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Hedge funds have had another lousy year, to cap a disappointing decade

过去一年，对冲基金仍旧表现不佳，将糟糕的十年推向顶峰。

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I’m a lousy cook, apparently. I wear too much mascara.

好像我还是一位差劲的厨师，还涂了太多的睫毛膏。

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Bad teachers mean a lousy talent-pool for employers.

教师不称职意味着将来可供雇主选择的人才库贫乏。

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It turns out that looking at rows of numbers is a lousy , or at least insufficient, way to predict an uprising.

结果证明只看着一排排的数字来预测起义是十分讨厌的，至少这是不够的。

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The financial crisis revealed that top bankers were fabulously remunerated for doing what turned out to be a lousy job.

金融危机暴露出：最后证明尽管高级银行家们做出的事情是何等糟糕，但是他们仍获得数额惊人的退休金。

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Although they still make lousy returns at home, they used the recent credit crisis to expand abroad.

尽管国内的收益仍差强人意，但三大银行利用近期的信贷危机扩展了海外市场。

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Despite the lousy results, Goldman shares closed up 14% today at $76.

尽管业绩表现黯淡，但高盛股价周二反而上涨了14%，报收于76美元。

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Almost 60% of Americans disapprove of Barack Obama’s handling of the economy, and three out of four think Congress is doing a lousy job.

近60%的美国人不赞同贝拉克•奥巴马处理经济问题的方式，75%的美国人认为国会的工作做的很糟糕。

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That leads to elevated blood sugar, lousy LDL-cholesterol levels and high blood pressure.

进而造成高血糖、糟糕的低密度骨蛋白-胆固醇水平及高血压。

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Even when the recession passes, they don’t strive as hard to find new jobs, and they hang on to lousy jobs longer.

就是在经济危机过去之后，他们也不会努力去寻找新的工作，还会依旧座蹩脚的工作。

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An example of this level would be, "Lousy weather we’re having, " This is great pizza, " My team won last night. "

就像，“天气真糟糕，”“披萨真不错，”“我的球队昨晚赢了。”

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Here’s the secret: Almost everyone is doing a lousy job of it. Do it well (even if you hate it), and you’re already well ahead of the herd.

诀窍就是：几乎每个人都做得很糟。你能做好它（即使你讨厌这样），你就是领头羊。

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Optimists argue that democratic transitions in the Middle East and north Africa could transform the region’s lousy economies (see chart).

乐观人士表示，中东和北非的民主过渡可以改观这一地区糟糕透顶的经济（如表所示）。

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In theory, the veto means that no country can be coerced into a lousy deal.

理论上，投票权意味着任何国家都不能被迫加入一项槽透的协定。

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Besides, the union has to know that making trouble over small cars in small-car-hating America is a lousy bet.

另外，工会必须知道，在痛恨小型车的美国找小型车的麻烦是一个差劲的赌注。

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These are miserable days when you feel lousy , grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhau sted.

那些日子真是惨透了，你觉得心里乱糟糟的，怨气丛生，寂寞，整个人彻底地精疲力竭。

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You can’t take a broken-down car you’re trying to sell and put two new doors on it and expect people not to think it’s a lousy deal.

你不可能拿着一辆老破车，给它安上两扇新门来卖，就指望人们不会认为这是一笔糟糕的交易。

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Lousy listeners are planning how they will respond even while you are speaking.

你还没有说完，糟糕听众已经筹划着如何回答了。

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Lousy listeners change the subject before you are ready to do so.

你还没准备好，糟糕听众就转换话题了。

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You can expect all the "right" reasons & excuses to "take the easy way out" or to make lousy decisions you might later regret.

你可以靠正确的理由赶快逃脱，也可以做些糟糕的抉择等着将来后悔。

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You can tick all the boxes under the sun and still be a lousy teacher.

你可以使自己满足所有的标准却依然还是一位糟糕的老师。

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You may have had a lousy school experience and you survived.

你也许有过糟糕的学校教育经历并且熬了过来。

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The problem with sycophancy isn’t so much that it’s offensive to watch, but that it’s a lousy business strategy.

拍马屁做法的错误之处并不在看起来有多么愚蠢，而是它本身是一个糟糕的商业策略。

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