| 1. | It was obvious, and it was dire .
这是显而易见的，也是悲惨可怕的。 |
| 2. | There would be dire consequences for the rest of the world .
对世界其它地区，后果将不堪设想。 |
| 3. | I see only dire poverty ahead from my feet to the grave .
面临着我的没有别的，只有可怕的贫困。 |
| 4. | This task proved deceptively easy in the dire emergency of 1933 .
在1933年极端紧急状态中，这个任务出乎寻常容易。 |
| 5. | The people here are reduced to dire poverty because of ( the ) natural disasters .
这里的人们由于自然灾害而穷不聊生。 |
| 6. | The united states should strengthen pakistan which found itself in dire peril .
美国应当加强处于严重危险中的巴基斯坦。 |
| 7. | For some years the javanese attacks placed palembang in dire peril .
在几年内爪哇人的进攻，看来已使巴邻旁处于极度危险之中。 |
| 8. | It is now late in season and our clients are in dire need of this fertilizer .
现在施肥季节已经快过去了，我们的客户迫切需要这批化肥。 |
| 9. | He led his clerks a dire life in the city, his family at home were not much happier .
在市中心，他的书记们给他逼得走头无路，在家里，上上下下的人也一样倒楣。 |
| 10. | Should he succeed, he might be followed by other governments in similarly dire economic straits .
如果他能成功，其它的经济处于类似困难境地的政府，就很可能仿效他。 |
