To make things worse, it started raining heavily half an hour later.

更糟糕的是，半小时后开始下起了大雨。

Feeling the pain from the initial credit squeeze last year and fearing worse to come, the firm cut its workforce by 30% this year and reduced its cash burn rate by half.

去年它就受到信贷紧缩的困扰，现在麻烦可能越来越大，该公司今年已经裁员30%，将它的现金净支出量减少了一半。

Performance runs on them give worse performance (about half the IB throughput) than the 4-way nodes.

这些机器的性能(大约为IB吞吐量的一半)比4路节点的性能还糟糕。

The more success Teresa had - and half a year later so many young women had joined her society that she needed to move again - the worse she felt.

随着越来越多的年轻女性加入她的服侍，特丽莎修女越成功，她的感觉就越糟糕。

Worse, half or more of the 14, 000 staff are expected to lose their jobs.

更糟糕的是，14,000[font=SimSun]名员工中一半以上的人可能会失业。

Almost half of Guatemala's children are chronically malnourished-a rate worse than Ethiopia's, and said by the world Bank to be the third-worst in the world.

在危地马拉，约有一半的孩童长期营养不良——比埃塞俄比亚的情况更糟，世界银行表示，该地区的贫困程度位列世界第三。

Japan is even worse: 30% of Japanese today are above 60, and in 30 years the number will be almost half.

日本甚至更糟：今日30%的日本人年龄超过60岁，30年后这一数字几乎为50%。

The problem seems to get worse with age, with more than half saying they forget things more frequently as they get older.

问题似乎会随着年龄变得更糟，一半以上的人说，随着他们年龄越大，忘记事情也就越频繁。

You must admit you've never loved her wholeheartedly and half-hearted love is worse than none.

你必须承认，你从来也没有全心全意地爱过她，而半调子的爱比没有爱更坏。

Now I can understand why your wife wants to divorce you. You must admit you've never loved her wholeheartedly and half-hearted love is worse than none.

我现在能理解你妻子为什么要和你离婚了。你得承认你从来没有全心全意地爱过她，而三心二意的爱比不爱更糟。

Other measures show that prices of art did far worse than equities over the past 25 years and slightly worse during the past half-century.

另一些衡量指标显示在过去25年里，艺术品的价值远远低于股票，而到了近半个世纪这种差异已经不明显了。

Engineers worked so hard to avoid public mistakes that they suppressed many new ideas rather than risk showing up with half-baked solutions to problems or, worse, no solutions at all.

工程师们尽力地回避普通的错误，以致他们压制了许多新创意，而不愿冒险提出不成熟的方案，或者更糟的是，压根就没有解决方案。

Boys are three and a half times more likely to be excluded, and the figure is worse still if you are a working-class or black boy.

数据显示，有近两成半的男孩子可能要被学校开除，而且这一数据在工人阶层和黑人当中更胜一筹。

Almost 70% of them reckon economic conditions are getting worse, compared with less than half in 2004.

接近70%的人预计经济状况会变得越来越糟糕，而2004年时持这种观点的人不到一半。

To make matters worse, he said, many Wall Street firms increased their work forces in the first half of the year, before the mood shifted and worries of a double-dip recession arose.

然而更糟糕的是，他说，在人们对二次触底后会不会反弹的担心情绪还没有好转之前的前半年，华尔街的很多公司却都增加了雇员。

Energy efficiency was only 0.09 percent worse in the first half of this year than in the same period in 2009, according to statistics released last week.

根据上周发布的官方数据显示，相比于2009年同期，今年上半年的能源效率仅下降了0.09%。

The situation is even worse at Infiniti, where the G-car accounts for more than half of car and truck sales combined.

英菲迪尼（Infiniti）的情况更糟：在轿车和卡车的总销售额中，G-car所占的份额超过了半数。

Worse, half or more of the 14,000 staff are expected to lose their jobs.

更糟糕的是，14，000名员工中一半以上的人可能会失业。

Disturbingly, nearly half the drivers in the 20 cities IBM surveyed said traffic had gotten worse in the last three years -- and 18 percent said it had gotten significantly worse.

令人不安的是， 在IBM调查的20个城市中，有半数司机认为三年内交通状况变糟了- 百分之十八的人认为这种恶化十分显著。

Shoule I walk the path of my worse or better half ?

我应该沿着我好的一半还是坏的一半走下去呢？

Soviet prisoners of war fared even worse. Of the 5.7 million taken prisoner in Germany 3.3 million died - more than half.

苏联战犯情况更差，570万被德国关押的战犯中，有330万死去——超过了一半。

To make things worse, over two and a half years, Apple has seen more success with the iPhone than Microsoft has to show for a full decade of its mobile efforts.

更糟糕的是，两年半以来，苹果在iPhone的成功也力挫微软在移动通信领域长达十年的努力。

The top of the clock tower is leaning one-and-a-half feet off a level position, according to surveyors, and getting worse each year.

据测量人员检测，钟楼顶部已水平偏移1.5英尺(约0.46米)，而且情况逐年严重。

Worse, almost half of big and medium-sized firms do not plan to hire any "regular" employees at all this year.

更糟糕的是大中型企业有半数计划今年不招聘固定职工。

Should I walk the path of my worse or better half ?

我应该走上这条利弊参半的路径吗？

Worse, more than half didn't have any fee info on their Web sites.

更糟的是，一半以上分行没有在网络上公布资费情报。

She looks the worse for wear after half a year as monitor.

她担任班长不过半年，就显得疲惫不堪了。