exacerbating factor

基本解释

An exacerbating factor this year is the demise of the investment banks.
投資銀行的紛紛倒閉令今年的形勢雪上加霜。

Even if we are not responsible for the entire mechanism of climate change, we are without a doubt, the cause of a major exacerbating factor.
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However water has, so far, rarely been at the roots of the tensions, but can indeed be an exacerbating factor where social and political tensions already exist.
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Even if other natural factors are happening at the same time—-that means that digging coal and oil up from underground and burning them releasing even more CO2 into the atmosphere is a certain exacerbating factor.
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