Most of us have survived a recession, so we're familiar with the belt-tightening strategies needed to survive a slump.

我们大多数人都挺过了经济衰退，所以我们都熟悉要在经济衰退中存活需要勒紧裤腰带的策略。

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This will cause further belt-tightening in the public services.

这将导致进一步削减公共服务开支。

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The scale of budget belt-tightening suggests these Banks' policy rates could stay way down for several years.

勒紧裤腰带削减预算的规模表明这些银行的利率政策将保持多年不变。

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Well after that, the bond price went up because people saw that as a sign that the company was tightening its belt and doing things right to have money to pay off the bondholders; so it was self-interested, I suppose--maybe you can ask him about this.

在这之后,债券的价格升高了,因为人们认为降低红利是一个信号,说明公司开始紧缩开支走向正轨,并且去偿付债券持有人,莱德利夫通过这种做法达到利己的目的,我想你们可以就此事向莱德利夫提问

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There was no clearer signpost pointing to the reversal of fortune that ensued than watching banks withdraw credit in ever increasing rounds of belt tightening.

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In 'Cowboy' we decided that if the music slammed into something, like the sound of a belt tightening, it could disappear without the listener noticing.

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Or are you simply assuming that efficiency, belt tightening, is good?

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