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If nuclear winter really is here, it may be safer to be a cockroach even than to keep your job.
如果核冬天已经到来，那么当小强甚至比保住饭碗更安全。
It was an extreme version of this rainless cold-below, warm-above stability that made early models of nuclear winter so disturbing.
这种稳定的大气的较下层的地方无雨而寒冷，大气较上层的地方较为温暖的一个极端的版本就是“核冬天”的早期模型那样的让人恐慌的情形。
Just 12 days after talks broke down and Stern declared the NBA could be headed to a "nuclear winter," he sat next to union executive director Billy Hunter to announce the deal.
在对话破裂后仅有的12天对话中，斯特恩宣布NBA可能会面对一个“核冬天”，他坐在联盟常务董事比尔.享特的旁边，宣布了这个协议。

Then again, it had no choice since the dot-com industry was in its nuclear winter.
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So, what happened to the economic nuclear winter that was supposed to engulf the start-up economy for the next five years?
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We're now in what many in techland are calling a nuclear winter for IPOs (see related story on p. 66).
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a period that scientists believe would follow a large nuclear explosion, when there would be very little light or heat and nothing would grow in the world

Nuclear winter refers to the possible effects on the environment of a war in which large numbers of nuclear weapons are used. It is thought that there would be very low temperatures and very little light during a nuclear winter.