1. If it is not, and you are likely to get seasick, no form of transport could be worse. 如果大海肆虐起来,你就可能晕船,那种难受劲儿是任何一种别的旅行的方式都不会带来的。
2. It gets worse. The popularity of tennis shoes has led women's feet literally to get bigger — especially wider — but the sizing of shoes hasn't changed. 情况正变得越来越糟。可网球鞋的普及确实使女人的脚变大了--特别是变得更宽了--但鞋子的尺寸却没有变。
3. In the United States, three-quarters of the adults surveyed by the Harris poll and two-thirds of all high-school seniors surveyed by Scholastic magazine say they believe that the United States will be a worse place 10 years from now than it is today. 在美国,哈里斯民意测验所调查的成人中的四分之三及《中学生》杂志所调查的高中生中的三分之二的人,都说他们认为10年以后美国将变成一个比现在更糟糕的地方。
4. Further south, conditions grew worse. 越往南走,条件变得越差。
5. For better or worse, qualities such as friendliness or reserve, plainness or charm may be suggested by your name and conveyed to other people before they even meet you. 不管是好是歹,诸如友好或拘谨,相貌平常或漂亮妩媚等品质特征已经和你的名字连在了一起,甚至在他人见到你本人之前就已经知道你的这些品质了。