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worst-case

/wurst-keys/US // ˈwɜrstˌkeɪs //

最坏情况下,最坏情况,最差情况下,最坏的情况

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the worst possibility; being the worst result that could be expected under the circumstances: a worst-case scenario.

Examples

  • Certain features of its history suggest why this may be the case.

  • And, in the case of fluoride, at least, that doubt might actually be justified.

  • But there is an underlying feeling that the worst is yet to come.

  • Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.

  • Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at Case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.

  • The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.

  • Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a zest to the worst vintage.

  • In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

  • Sometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.

  • As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.