Even in a worst-case situation the United States would have been able to retaliate.

即使最坏的情形发生，美国也能反击。

In the worst-case scenario more than ten thousand people might be affected.

在最坏的情况下，有一万多人可能会受到影响。

The worst-case scenario is an aircraft will crash if a bird destroys an engine.

如果小鸟毁坏了一部发动机，最坏的情形是飞机坠毁。

Why wouldn’t a worst-case accident here merit the same caution?

为什么如此糟糕的一个灾难却没有相应的警示呢？

The worst-case scenario in an OLTP environment is loss of transactional data.

在 OLTP 环境下，最糟糕的案例场景是事务数据丢失。