As well as those chronic problems, the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency.
除了这些长期存在的问题，欧盟还面临着其经济核心地区——使用单一货币的16个国家——的严重危机。
Powerful memory doesn’t make my emotions any more acute or vivid.
强大的记忆力并没有使我的情感更加敏锐或鲜明。
From life expectancy to cancer and infant mortality rates, we are lagging behind many of our peers/With more than 6.8 million on waitlists, healthcare is becoming increasingly inaccessible for those who can not opt to pay for private treatment; and the cost of providing healthcare is increasingly squeezed out investment in other public services/ As demand for healthcare continues to grow, pressures on the workforce-which is already near breaking point-will only become more acute.
从预期寿命到癌症和婴儿死亡率，我们在许多同行国家中都处于落后地位；有超过680万人在候诊名单上，对于那些无法选择自费接受治疗的人来说，医疗保健正变得越来越难以获得；同时，提供医疗保健的成本正日益被挤占，导致对其他公共服务的投资减少。随着对医疗保健的需求持续增长，医疗工作者队伍——目前已接近崩溃边缘——所面临的压力只会变得更加严峻。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。