In Britain, where the Bank of England kept the base rate at 0.5% on July 7th as predicted, expectations of rate rises this year have evaporated.
在英国,正如人们预计,7月7号,英格兰银行继续把它的基础利率维持在0.5%,对于其今年会加息的期望早已落空。
Rough diamond prices have fallen even more, as much as 75 percent since their peak last July at some auctions.
钻石原石价格下跌更严重。比起去年7月在一些拍卖会上拍出的最高价,原始价格下降多达75%。
World food prices-as measured by the Economist's index-are back at their peak of July 2008.
全球粮食价钱—以经济学人指数来衡量—回到了2008年7月的高位。
Crowds started forming at Houston's Museum of Natural Science in early July, as people young and old came to see the plant museum staffers had nicknamed "Lois."
VOA: standard.2010.07.30
At the end of July, the roommates said goodbye, as they started summer recess and headed back to their home states to gear up for the fall re-election campaign.
VOA: standard.2010.08.07
NATO announced that six more U.S.troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly nine-year-old war.
VOA: standard.2010.07.30
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