1·For most of the last decade, this trend has been upward, except for the most severe periods of credit crunch.
近十年的大多数时间里，这一趋势是向上的，除了信用危机最为严重的时期之外。
2·As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy, triggering the most severe financial crisis since the 1920s.
随着拍卖商叫价，纽约华尔街历史最悠久的银行之一雷曼兄弟申请破产，引发了自20世纪20年代以来最严重的金融危机。
3·Competition is usually most severe among close relatives with similar demands on the environment.
对环境有相似需求的近亲之间的竞争通常最为激烈。
4·Guess who the most severe members of that committee are? It's the students, your peers who are outraged at that kind of behavior.
猜猜委员会里最严厉的成员是谁？是学生，对这种行为义愤填膺的你们的同辈。
5·Since he was speaking in the Midwest, he decided to begin by noting that the most severe earthquake in American history took place not in California or Alaska but at New Madrid, Missouri in 1811.
由于他是在中西部发表演讲，他决定先说明美国历史上最严重的地震不是发生在加利福尼亚或阿拉斯加，而是1811年在密苏里州的新马德里。
6·Kawasaki disease is featured by wide polyangitis, especially that of cardiovascular system is most severe, which can form coronary arteriectasis and coronary aneurysm.
川崎病的特征为广泛的中小血管炎症，以心血管系统的损害最为严重，可形成冠状动脉扩张和冠状动脉瘤。
7·But the problem is most severe in America.
但美国的问题就严重了。
8·Thailand is suffering its most severe downturn in a decade.
泰国现在正面临十年来最严重的一次经济衰退。
9·The most severe threat posed by diarrhoea is dehydration.
腹泻造成的最严重威胁是脱水。
10·The most severe punishments are seldom, if ever, applied.
最严厉的惩罚的确是很少见的。