2007年的前5个月，贸易赤字实际上比2006年下降了7%。
For the first five months of 2007, the trade deficit actually fell 7 percent from 2006.
美国国内未加工钢铁产量较去年下降47%；五月铁路交通运输量几乎比一年前水平下降四分之一。
American raw domestic steel production is down 47% year on year; railway traffic in May was almost a quarter below its level of a year earlier.
与此同时，美国商务部报告，新房建造率下降到最低点。一月份新房建造比前一个月下降了17%。
Meanwhile, the U.S. Commerce Department reported that new home construction plummeted to an all-time low, down 17 percent in January from the previous month.
实际上，大多数营养学家坚持认为，婴儿出生后的前六个月里，没有什么比纯母乳喂养更加合适(他们一开始推荐四个月)。
In fact, most nutritionists are adamant that babies are best off with nothing but breast milk for the first six months of life (they used to recommend four months, but now say six months).
今年第二季度私有房屋价格仅上涨1.9%，是两年以来最小季度涨幅；六月份销售量比前一个月下降25%，呈现出回落趋势。
Private house prices rose by just 1.9% in the second quarter, the smallest gain for two years, and the volume of units sold showed a 25% dip in June on the previous month.
四月份，工业产值和订单分别比前一年下降了22%和32%。
In April industrial production was down by 22% and orders by 32% on a year earlier.
美国劳工部周二表示，八月份消费者价格指数比前一月下降了0.1%。
Consumer prices actually declined by 0.1% in August compared with the month before, the Labour Department said on Tuesday.
让她受不了的是那些不合理的反应，例如“亲爱的阿比”在八月提倡的，每天早晨在孩子离家前，父母给他们照个像。
It's the irrational responses that make her crazy, like when Dear Abby endorses the idea, as she did in August, that each morning before their kids leave the house, parents take a picture of them.
一项最新研究表明，过瘦的女性在怀孕前三个月流产的几率比正常体重的女性高72%。
According to a new study, thin or skinny women who get pregnant are 72 percent more likely to miscarry in the first three months of pregnancy than their normal weight counterparts.
正常体重的妊娠期妇女在妊娠前三个月饮用含糖饮料比不饮用者生育超重婴儿的风险更高。
Normal-weight expectant moms who drank sugar-sweetened beverages in the first trimester were at a higher risk of having large babies than the women who didn't consume much of them.
最新的官方数字表明，2011年前三个月劳动生产率仅比1年前增长了0.3%。
The latest official figures suggest workers’ productivity in the first three months of 2011 was only 0.3% higher than a year before.
9月10日，30年期抵押贷款平均利率为5.79%，几乎比前一周的6.25%低了半个百分点。
On September 10th the average rate on a 30-year mortgage was 5.79%, almost half a percentage point below the average rate of 6.25% the previous week.
到2月份为止的三个月中，2009年英国工业产量比前三个月少5.8%，比去年同期少12.5%。
Britain's industrial production was 5.8% lower in the three months to February 2009 than it had been in the previous three months, and 12.5% lower than a year earlier.
但在十年多的情报搜集，反攻击和防御措施后，今天的美国，的确看似比十年前九月十日脆弱的美国大有改善。
But after a decade of intelligence-gathering, counter-attacks and defensive measures, America does seem a good deal less vulnerable than it was on September 10th ten years ago.
在2010年12月，食品价格比一年前要便宜的地方有印度、埃及、加纳这样的国家。
Food was cheaper in December 2010 than a year earlier in places like India, Egypt and Ghana.
现在，每十个父亲中就有八个会休到13个月的假期的三分之一，9%的父亲会休到整个假期的40%以上，这比十年前上升了4个百分点。
Eight in 10 fathers now take a third of the total 13 months of leave - and 9 percent of fathers take 40 percent of the total or more - up from 4 percent a decade ago.
在5月18日，吉尼斯认定瓦伦汀比前一位世界年龄纪录保持者--来自佐治亚州梦露的贝斯 ·库伯多活48天。
On May 18, Guinness determined that Valentim was 48 days older than the person previously considered the world's oldest human, Besse Cooper from Monroe, Georgia.
截至2008年1月1日，法国总人口(包括法国大陆和海外领土)数量达到6375.3万，比前一年增加了40万。
France's overall population — comprising mainland France and overseas territories — totalled 63.753 million on January 1, 2008, swelling by 400,000 since the previous year.
尽管我不在上电视了，但是我还是比六年前5月7号前有名的多。
Even though I am not on TV much anymore, I remain more popular than I had been before May 7th, six years ago.
按照能源信息署的数字，2010年前9个月全国发电行业煤炭消耗量比2009年同期增加了，但比2008年接近纪录的水平还是低了5.7%。
Coal consumption in the electric-power sector during the first nine months of 2010 was up from 2009, but still down 5.7 percent from 2008's near-record levels, according to EIA figures.
高盛集团对上季度（4月-6月）的利润额做出了评估。 结果十分乐观，为34.4亿美元，比前一季度增长了近90%。
Goldman Sachs surprised even optimistic analysts with a $3.44 billion profit for the three months to June, almost 90% more than the previous quarter.
2010年前四个月里比以往更热，北非、南亚和加拿大都出现了破纪录的春季高温。
The first four months were the hottest ever measured, with record spring temperatures in northern Africa, south Asia and Canada.
11月份缴不出房贷而被没收的比例比一年前高出百分之28，现在大约有1200万美国人的房贷欠款超过他们住房的市场价值。
Foreclosure filings in November were 28 percent higher than a year earlier and some 12 million Americans now have mortgage balances bigger than the market value of their homes.
星期二，这些汽车公司报告了11月的销售情况，销售量比一年前下降了多达百分之47。
Tuesday, the carmakers reported sales in November that were down as much as 47 percent from a year ago.
截至2008年三月，印度邮政处理的普通邮件比十年前的150多亿下降到了60亿封。
In the year to March 2008 India post handled 6 billion pieces of ordinary post, down from over 15 billion at the start of the decade.
不过，8月3日发布的新数据显示，比一年前同期相比，今年上半年的能源密度只微弱上升了0.09%。
But on August 3rd new data showed that in the first half of the year, energy intensity nudged up by a mere 0.09% compared with the same period a year ago.
事情在慢慢好转——12月的新建筑工程数量只比前一年低1/5。
Slowly, matters are righting themselves—new construction in December was just one-fifth below levels a year earlier.
事情在慢慢好转——12月的新建筑工程数量只比前一年低1/5。
Slowly, matters are righting themselves—new construction in December was just one-fifth below levels a year earlier.
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