评级变动通常只是反应滞后的指标，它是经济困难的产物，而不是它的原因。

Changes in ratings are usually lagging indicators, following rather than causing economic hardship.

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可见，“柴油荒”出现后，两大石油公司缺乏有效的应急机制，且存在反应滞后和行动迟缓的嫌疑。

Visible, "diesel shortage" emerges, two big oil companies lack of effective emergency mechanism, and there is a reaction lag and slow-moving suspicion.

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只有在全球气温变化开始和海平面反应之间的短暂滞后期间，适应气候变化的物种才能从赤道向高纬度地区迁移。

Only during the short lag between onset of global temperature change and sea level response can warm-adapted species migrate from the equator toward higher latitudes.

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Let me just give some example of-- sometimes people are very slow to see the obvious, or it seems so in history.

我来举些例子-,有时人们对显见之物的反应反而比较滞后，起码从历史上来看是这样的。

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