Equity markets repeatedly rallied and then faltered as they alternately took heart from the strength of corporate profits and fretted over the sustainability of the economic recovery.

随着股票市场一时受公司利润反弹的利好消息的刺激，一时又受到投资者担心经济复苏的可持续性的影响，股票市场一会儿反弹上攻，一会儿又震荡下行，如此再三。

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They have often fretted over when to shrug their shoulders, and when to take a stand, as societies grow more secular, more liberal in sexual and social behaviour and less interested in going to church.

ECONOMIST: An often vexed relationship