stark (stɑːk)
adj. 严酷的，刻板的，毫无修饰的，荒凉的，赤裸的，简单的，明显的，简陋的，严重的，极端的
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The stark reality is that we are operating at a huge loss.
严酷的事实是我们的经营亏损非常严重。
adv. 完全地，极端地
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After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 Europe feared that Vladimir Putin would cut supplies of piped gas passing through Ukraine to European customers. That worry led Poland’s then prime minister, Donald Tusk, to issue a stark warning: “Excessive dependence on Russian energy makes Europe weak.” As a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Mr Putin’s forces unfolds, Europe looks, if anything, weaker. Despite some efforts to diversify supply, install cross-border gas connections and build plants to import liquefied natural gas (LNG), in the decade to 2020 Russian exports of piped gas to the EU and Britain shot up by a fifth by volume, to make up roughly 38% of all that fossil fuel consumed in Europe. That year more than half of German gas came from Russia.
俄罗斯2014年吞并克里米亚后，欧洲担心弗拉基米尔·普京会切断通过乌克兰向欧洲客户供应的管道天然气。这种担忧导致波兰当时的总理唐纳德·图斯克(Donald Tusk)发出严厉警告：“过度依赖俄罗斯的能源会使欧洲变得脆弱。”随着普京军队对乌克兰展开全面入侵，欧洲看起来（如果有的话）变得更脆弱了。尽管在供应多样化、安装跨境天然气连接和建造工厂进口液化天然气(LNG)方面做出了一些努力，但在截至2020年的十年间，俄罗斯对欧盟和英国的管道天然气出口量猛增了五分之一，约占欧洲消耗所有化石燃料的38%。那一年，德国逾一半的天然气来自俄罗斯。
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