bad year

基本解释

IT HAS been a bad year to be young in Britain.
對生活在英國的青少年來說，今年是糟糕的一年。
“Yeah.” He sounded morose. “It's been a bad year.” He seemed to wilt.
“是的。”聽起來有些憂鬱，“這將是糟糕的一年。”他好像在畏縮。
The villain of the piece seems to be food prices: An unusually bad year for natural disasters in China led to domestic supply shortages, and international commodity prices have also been on a tear.
其中的罪魁禍首似乎是食品類價格：今年中國經歷了異常嚴重的自然災害，導致國內供應短缺，而國際大宗商品價格也紛紛上漲。

But any American growers or home gardeners hoping for an early spring this year just got some bad news.
are slow to do a second edition of their book because if they got it out this year it would be a bad year to get it out because everything is changing.
他們怕自己的書出版時,恰逢亂世,因爲現在,整個世界都在變。
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So, you're having a good year this year maybe-- it looks that way now-- and you think you can't afford it, but just think how bad it will be if it's a bad year.
也許對你來說,今年年景不錯,起碼現在看起來是這樣的,你衹是覺得買不起保險,那麽一旦歉收,你的処境會有多糟呢
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Which leads to the question: Why, after a single bad year, are investors considering abandoning them?
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