不堪 | bù kān | cannot bear; cannot stand; utterly; extremely | |
堪称 | kān chēng | can be rated as; can be said to be | |
难堪 | nán kān | hard to take; embarrassed | |
堪培拉 | kān péi lā | Canberra, capital of Australia | |
不堪设想 | bù kān shè xiǎng | too horrible to contemplate; unthinkable; inconceivable |
1 | You may have been around for a while, but no one wants a jaded, world-weary person working for them. | |
2 | Caracas' streets, though, may be even more chaotic than those of Colombia's capital. | |
3 | Elsewhere in the world's second-largest economy, the situation is similarly worrying. | |
4 | Its airport is cramped and dirty, too small for the volume it tries to handle and in a state of disrepair. | |
5 | It all sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it? That's because it's precisely the policy prescription that got us into this mess. And it's the last place we want to go back to. |