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They knew finance could be stressful at the best of times.

他们知道金融在最佳时期也会产生压力。

Are not the quickest cats at the best of times.

你们最好乖乖的听我的话，把铁门锁上

That was how I came to enlist, which was a black spot upon my character at the best of times .

所以，我只好去投军，这就是我一生中品行上的一点污点。

Rosarno is in Calabria, the toe of Italy, a lawless place at the best of times.

Rosarno位于意最南端的卡拉布里亚区，这是一个法律无法触及的地方。

The presidency is difficult enough to run at the best of times, without installing a former first lady and an ex-president in the vice-president's residence.

在光景好的日子里总统就够难当的了，更不要说将一位前任第一夫人和一位前任总统安顿在副总统的住宅之中。

A fire drill is, to put it mildly, an inconvenient exercise at the best of times.

阿火警演习是，说得客气一点，在最好的时候行使的不便。

This is a fractious and rancorous polity at the best of times.

在其状态最佳时，尼日利亚是个容易动怒，很有脾气的整体。

Small farming towns like Huron, which appear rickety at the best of times, are now desperate.

像休伦这样的小型农业城镇，在经济最好的时候也岌岌可危，现在更是穷途末路了。

Even at the best of times, foreigners needed special permission to visit Tibet, according to the BBC's correspondent in Beijing, Quentin Somerville.

根据BBC在北京的通讯员昆廷-默维尔说，甚至在最有利的情况下，外国人还是需要得到特许才能访问西藏。

He is a stammering wreck at the best of times.

他一般只是一个结结巴巴的胆小鬼。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。