The figures are not very good when measured against those of our competitors.

I'm not very good at saving.

我不大攒得住钱。

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She's not very good at putting her views across.

她不大善于表达自己的观点。

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Dec: Ideas are always popping into my head, most of them not very good, but sometimes an idea or phrase interests me and I start experimenting with it.

灵感经常从我脑子里冒出来，但它们大多数都不怎么样，但有时遇到可能很有趣的点子，那么我就开始付诸尝试。

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Well, it's not very good, is it?

看来不怎么样，是吧？

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But it's less good news for the shale oil industry, which may find at least some of its investments losing money as the oil price heads firmly lower.

但对页岩油行业而言，这就不是什么好消息了。随着油价稳步下跌，页岩油行业至少有部分投资将赔钱。

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Bureau officials hit more land that developers make "to shortage" is not to make less good to be less because the land was less suitable for developers.

更有国土局官员一针见血，认为开发商闹“地荒”，闹的不是地少是好地少，闹的是适合开发商的土地少。

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The second, including such routine service work as care assistants and home health aids, retail sales clerks and food preparers, is less good.

第二个种类则相对较差，包含了护工、家庭健康护理人员、售货员与食品筹备员等常规服务岗位。

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This is good for Brazil, whose economy is built around exporting them, and less good for China, whose growth depends in part on importing them.

这对巴西有利，因为它的经济就建立在大宗商品出口的基础上。但对中国就不太好了，因为它的经济增长部分依赖于大宗商品的进口。

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It is less good spoken by a corporate leader to his ranks, especially when the jocularity begins and ends there.

但企业领导人向员工说这话就不那么妥当了，尤其是在全文的幽默只此一处的情况下。

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US scientists found steelhead trout reared in hatcheries were much less good at reproducing than wild fish.

美国科学家发现在孵卵所的虹鳟其繁殖能力远不如野生种野生鱼类。

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So the start into 2008 was very good for Germany, less good for others, but even Germany is not gonna hold up going forward.

所以，2008年的开始对德国来说可能很好，其他国家的形势却不妙，但是，德国也不可能一直保持这种增长速度。

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Is it less good if it turns out the dame he wrote it about is married to someone else?

这是好事。难道就因诗中的女主角嫁给别人就变成坏事了吗？

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The most worrying thing about over-egged praise is that it makes us less good at our jobs.

过度赞誉最让人担忧的地方，是它不利于我们的工作。

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But he warned that "there are some banks that are in a less good situation that might eventually suffer".

但他警告称，“一些状况不太好的银行可能最终会陷入困境”。

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She did not see why when she was alone she would be less good a dinner than when she had a guest.

她就是不明白为什么她单独吃饭时不如和客人在一起吃饭时吃得香。

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Our negotiators should never forget that those who need agreements get less good ones than those who do not.

我们的谈判人员应该记住，与那些不需要协定的国家相比，那些需要协定的国家会得到更不利的谈判结果。

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The crab cakes are abandoned after a bite. Less good, he says.

蟹饼只咬了一口就被放到一边，不太好吃，他说。

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If the data quality is less good, then the refinement of torsion angles may not converge very well.

如果数据质量并不太好，那么扭转角的精修便不会收敛得太好。

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It's good for debugging; less good for production machines, where it can pose a security threat.

它适合用于调试；不太适合用于生产环境中的机器，它会引发安全威胁。

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Eventually what happened is those inferior forms of being get less good and less like the most ultimate being.

最终这些低级的存在，变得没那么好，不那么像那个终极的存在。

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