Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine.

上周，他的公司正在从远在世界的另一角落收集零散的信息，并预测在乌克兰将发生一场。

Closing it down would be a disaster.

关闭诺丁汉将是一场灾难。

We cannot solve the crisis without treating it as a crisis.

如果我们不把这一切当作一场，我们就无法解决这场。

We're having a small reception - it's to launch a new advertising campaign.

我们要一场小型宴会--要进行新的广告宣传。

So I went to one of these games and I got pretty pumped up.

我去看了一场比赛，情绪很高涨。

Most of those reports were a nightmare—grotesque, circumstantial, eager and untrue.

那些报道大多数都是一场梦——离奇古怪，捕风捉影，煞有介事，而且不真实。

This is a disaster for polar bears.

对于北极熊而言，这是一场灾难。

There's always a constant fear of falling behind everyone else on the socially perpetuated race to the finish line, whether that be toward graduate school, medical school or lucrative career.

社会上永久延续着一场“向终点冲刺的比赛”，无论终点是研究生院、医学院还是赚钱的职业，人们总有一种落后于别人的担忧。

We are going to have a farewell party.

我们打一场告别会。

I'm actually auditioning for a play, too.

其实我也在为一场演出试镜呢。

No one working with these students claims to know how to keep all students in school. Counselors, teachers, and administrators are in the front lines of what seems at times to be a losing battle.

没有老师能说出如何才能保证所有学生都留在学校。在一线工作的辅导员，教师和管理人员有时看似在打一场败仗。

This is not an easy fight, but it's worth trying to do this.

这势必是一场恶战，但是是值得的。

I'm going to study at the library. I have to take an exam tomorrow.

我要去图书馆学习，我明天有一场考试。

I was watching a massive shift in real time, as major investments began pouring into innovative new ideas and early stage technology startups.

我亲眼见证了一场巨大变革：大量资本开始涌入创新项目与早期科技初创企业。

Now you know how to chair a meeting from beginning to end.

现在你直到如何从头至尾主持一场会议了。

There was a lawsuit. He'd bitten a barmaid, and had a bad reputation for temper. So I was feeling rather apprehensive.

它咬酒吧女招待引发了一场官司，也因为坏脾气而臭名昭著。所以我很担心。

Do you remember what your first concert was?

你记得你看的第一场演唱会吗？

A severe and long-lasting drought destroyed crops across the southern Great Plains.

一场严重且持续的干旱让大平原南部的玉米地毁灭殆尽。

The eruption of the volcano was an unexpected cataclysm.

火山爆发是一场意外灾难。

But they're about to begin an epic journey north through the bleak and forbidding tundra.

但它们即将开始一场史诗之旅，向北穿越荒凉而寒冷的苔原禁地。