great

To be not very good, efficient, suitable, etc.
Grandma Mary worked inside the factory for a short while-just as her mother and my great aunt Lucia did before they opened the restaurant.
玛丽奶奶曾在巧克力工厂里工作过一段很短的时间，她母亲和我的露西阿姨婆在开餐厅前也是。
The United States was the only major country, apart from Japan, to benefit from the Great War.
除日本外，美国是唯一从第一次世界大战中捞到好处的大国。
The governor that this great lump of vegetable gold was as rich an ornament as new england earth would offer him.
似乎在提醒总督：这颗金黄色的大南瓜，已经是新英格兰的土壤能够为他奉献的最丰富多采的点缀了。
Just at this point he met his soul's sworn comrade, Joe Harper -- hard-eyed , and with evidently a great and dismal purpose in his heart.
恰在此时，他遇到了他的铁哥们儿乔•哈帕——他两眼发直，显然心怀鬼胎。
To make the matter worse, the orders received by the garments industry have gone down a great deal because of the recent recession.
最近的经济衰退又雪上加霜，使成衣业的订单急剧下降。
Bill: It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another.
比尔：坚强的人只能救赎自己，伟大的人才能拯救他人。
We know something of the great variety of the sea-bed's topography.
China has had the great fortune of good timing, too, with its reforms coming at the start of a great wave of globalization.
中国也遇上好时机，它的改革适逢全球化大浪潮开始之时。
Indeed, in the banking world, he is often hailed as one of the great, original "quants" , who paved the way for the derivatives revolution.
确实，在银行业，他常常被誉为为衍生品革命铺平道路的首批伟大的“宽客（quants）”之一。
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.
我又看见一个白色的大宝座，与坐在上面的。从他面前天地都逃避，再无可见之处了。