The present situation of the oceans is bad and worrying and Slat wanted to do something to change it.

目前，海洋状况十分糟糕，令人担忧，斯莱特想付诸行动来改变现状。

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He insists that the security situation in neighboring Afghanistan and Pakistan is bad, and complains that wherever the U.S. is present there are bombings and insecurity.

他坚称邻国阿富汗和巴基斯坦的局势恶劣，并抱怨说，不论美国在哪里出现，那里就发生爆炸与不安全局势。

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5, Too bad he did not devote more of his book to the present and the future, and to the policies that could alleviate the situation he describes.

很遗憾，书中他没有对现在和未来着更多笔墨，也未论及可以缓解他所述困境的诸多政策。

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This is a bad situation that results in bad choices because the policy was designed to present bad choices and bad choices only, which is why Congress was supposed to avoid it and to come up with an alternative means of achieving the deficit reduction that is otherwise achieved through arbitrary, across-the-board cuts.

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