And your future appears bleak at best.

的未来充其量也只能说惨淡无光。

At best, they would have had some sort of spiced wine. You're nitpicking.

最多只准加点葡萄酒。是鸡蛋里挑骨头。

To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.

许多人不明白获得这些新的治疗方法和疫苗都必须进行动物实验。对于他们来说，动物实验说 得好是浪费，说得不好是残忍。

At best there will be a wrenching slowdown; at worst, a relapse into recession.

最多经济呈现糟糕的放缓迹象，最坏则是再度陷入经济衰退。

Therefore the historian can only approximate history at best.

因此，历史学家们至多只能接近历史。

I think if you do follow things in a formulaic manner you will wind up at best being the same as everybody else.

我想，如果只是循规蹈矩地做事情，将最多只是和别人做得一样好。

But the nervous system of the things we make is rudimentary at best.

但是我们制造的东西的神经系统充其量只是简陋的。

At best, a plant that can't hydrate properly grows slowly; at worst, it dies.

情况好时，一株无法水合的植物会生长缓慢，情况不佳时，会死掉。

Shaky at best. -And why is that?

不太稳定，说得好听点。-为什么会那样呢？

We should recognize that romantic love, the idea of being deeply enamored of one special partner over a whole lifetime, is a very new, ambitious and really pretty odd concept, at best 250 years old.

我们应该认识到，浪漫爱情——一辈子都深深地迷恋着一个特别的伴侣，这是一个全新的、雄心勃勃的、怪的概念，最好一生能达到250岁。

" Figures from a government survey, published last year, show that 17 million adults in England have basic maths skills that are, at best, the same as an 11-year-old, " he said.

" 去年公布的一项政府调查数据显示，1700万英国成年人的基本数学技能充其量与一个11岁的孩子相当" 。

But then when they have a moment that's regular and ordinary with you, the thing that they're absolutely best at is just making someone feel comfortable enough to like be themselves.

但是当这些大导演们事必躬亲的指导的时候，他们最擅长的其实是让演员完全放松下来，能够自由地表达。

At best it might be months, just as likely.

好的话可能要几个月，但也只是可能。

It's just child's play at this particular moment, but later, she becomes exactly what Argyle made her that one magical day -- a Pegasus-winged, Unicorn-horned Earth Pony who boasts the best features of all three species at once.

在这个特殊的时刻，这只是小孩子的游戏，但之后，就在那神的一天，Sunny就完全变成了Argyle赋予她的样子——一匹有着天马翼、独角兽角的大地矮种马，它同时拥有三个物种中最棒的特征。

They view change with suspicion at best and hostility at worst.

他们以怀疑的眼光看待变化，在最坏的情况下表现出敌意。

Though the truthfulness of this record is questionable at best as this supposedly happened back in 1887 which means there's no corroborating evidence to support this claim.

虽然这个记录的真实性值得商榷，因为按推测这发生在1887年，意味着有没有确凿的证据支持这项说法。

The oil exporting countries formed a combination to sell oil at best price.

石油输出国家组成联盟，以便石油能卖个好价钱。

So multitasking makes us at best, inefficient, and at worst, downright dangerous.

所以一心多用在最好的情况下会让我们效率低下，而在最坏的情况下会让我们危险。

But sea lions need to see their best at hundreds of meters deep.

但海狮需要看清几百米深的地方。

It does that best at a relatively neutral pH.

它在相对中性的 pH 值下最好。