Dire Straits

基本解釋

As a result, he will leave behind him a country in dire straits.
結(jié)果他即將卸任的國家處在了恐怖海峽之中。
But many other economists and many voters think that in a time of fiscal dire straits, "tax cuts" (especially on the richest earners) are morally unjustifiable and economically reckless.
但仍有很多經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家以及很多選民認(rèn)為，在財(cái)政嚴(yán)重困難時(shí)期“稅收減免”（特別是給那些最高收入階層）是既不道德，經(jīng)濟(jì)上也不合理的。
Though there are indeed people who are in dire straits and need immediate help, most of the people we generally call "poor" are not as poor as anticapitalists make them out to be.
雖然確實(shí)有人處于可怕的窘境中，需要即時(shí)的幫助，但大部分所謂的“窮人”，并不如反資本主義者所想的那樣。

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