severe中等

The fact that fires happened so often meant they couldn’t have been severe enough to kill most trees.

火灾发生得如此频繁，这意味着它们不可能严重到足以烧死大部分树木。

Research shows that these prescribed burns make subsequent wildfires less severe, even if later fires happen under the most dangerous weather conditions.

研究表明，这些计划烧除会降低后续野火的严重程度，即使之后的火灾发生在最危险的天气条件下也是如此。

“It’s a double-edged sword because wildfires are getting more severe and larger under climate change and we need this work even more, but then the work gets more challenging,” said Susan Prichard, a fire ecologist at the University of Washington.

“这是一把双刃剑，因为在气候变化下野火变得越来越严重、规模越来越大，我们更加需要这项工作，但这项工作也变得更具挑战性，”华盛顿大学的火灾生态学家苏珊·普里查德说。

It may make severe fires harder to put out.

它可能使严重的火灾更难扑灭。

This is why the recent severe delays caused by numerous maintenance works have thrown the rail industry into chaos at a time when most people head on holiday, which matters for business in a country where tourism accounts for 10 percent of GDP.

正因如此，近期大量维修工程造成的严重延误，在大多数人外出度假之际让铁路行业陷入混乱，而在一个旅游业占GDP 10%的国家，这对经济事关重大。

Waterstones branches suffer a severe reduction in revenue.

水石书店各分店收入严重减少。

severe criticism.

严厉批评。

The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep — and bone-showing.

然而，法国的这些举措过于依赖严厉的惩罚，来改变一种仍把美视为肤浅外表——乃至骨感——的文化。

less severe.

不那么严厉的。