SQUEEZING a decent profit from a slow year is a pleasing knack for any company.
在经济发展缓慢的一年里能挤出一个体面的利润额来是任何企业都乐于采取的技巧。
Tourism shopping tax refund firm Global Blue is predicting that the final quarter of 2014 will boost what has been a slow year in terms of international spend in Britain.
旅游购物退税公司举世蓝联（Global Blue）预测，就英国的国际消费而言，2014年最后一个季度将提振英国今年低迷的国际消费。
The data were collected this year, and there is a chance that the slow-to-recover economy is making the problem worse.
调查数据是今年收集的，而复苏缓慢的美国经济可能正在让劳动者的健康问题变得雪上加霜。
The intent was to slow the growth of Medicare costs, but the result was a formula that has proposed cutting payments for America's doctors year after year after year.
其本意是想放缓医保支出的增长速度，但结果却使其成为一年一年又一年地降低医生薪资的方案。
"It's a slow and creeping and nutrient life-bringing pulse of water that comes into the Delta every year and people have been living with it for thousands of years," he said.
“这股水流每年来到三角洲，缓慢前行、滋养生命，数千年来人们都赖此为生。”他说。
Together these could have cut 1.5 percentage points from growth in the first half of this year, yielding a feeble 2 per cent - too slow to put a dent in unemployment.
这些因素加总在一起，可能会将今年上半年的经济增速拉低1.5个百分点，使增长率降至乏力的2%——这一增速过于缓慢，无助于缓解减少。
Guards set up a slalom course of barriers to slow truck traffic at the most heavily used crossing sites. Nevertheless, elephants, rhinos, pythons, and deer on the move become roadkill most every year.
在某些车流量较大的十字路口，守卫们都设置了回旋障碍，以减慢车速，即便如此，每一年都会有不少的大象、犀牛、蟒蛇和鹿被车辆轧死在路上。
India's economy is expected to slow down slightly, but continue to grow at a healthy pace in the coming year.
预计，印度的经济会稍微减慢，但是在今后的一年时间里会继续以健康的步伐增长。
So, despite a rough start from the financial crisis (which will still slow global growth this year and next), there is no reason why the new decade has to be an economic flop.
尽管金融危机(今明两年内仍会减缓全球经济增长)带来崎岖开端，下个十年经济将不再滑落。
Beginning in 2004 the percentage of the world's population that became ill with TB in a given year flattened and then began a slow decline.
从2004年开始，在给定的年份中全世界因结核病而病倒的人口百分比不再增长，随后开始缓慢下降。
For the lodging industry, 2009 was a challenging year, and forecasts indicate that the lodging industry recovery will be a slow and demanding process.
2009年对于酒店行业是充满挑战的一年。各方面的信息显示酒店业的复苏将是一个缓慢而艰难的过程。
While the very oldest ice has all but disappeared, there has been an increase in two - and three-year-old ice, which could potentially thicken and slow the decline at least for a while.
虽然最老的冰川几乎都消失了，但是一些两三岁的冰川还在增加，它们可能会变厚，至少会在短时间内减缓冰川面积下降的趋势。
What was a slow and steady increase much of the year has gone into overdrive since late summer.
自夏末以来，今年大部分时间缓慢而稳定的增长已经加快了速度。
At first, I was slow and a bit wobbly, but by the end of the year I was faster and fitter.
一开始我骑的很慢而且有点晃动，但是到了年底就快多了而且很适应。
Last year I was slow dancing with an old friend to some dreadful tune at her gaff, having put away a shed-load of drink, and we found ourselves having a bit of a tonsil tease.
去年，我在一位老朋友的娱乐场所和着不怎么好听的曲调缓慢地挪动着舞步，喝了很多酒之后，我们发现彼此之间有了一丝丝好感。
Every year tens of millions of sharks die a slow death because of finning.
每年，由于鱼翅买卖，数千万条鲨鱼在海底静静地等待死亡。
Taken as a whole, though, growth in the world economy seems likely to slow below 3% next year-a pace that many count as recessionary.
整体而言，全球经济明年的增速极有可能下滑到3%以下，普遍将这一速度视为经济进入衰退期。
Transport Department figures show 143 accidents a year are caused directly by slow drivers.
交通部门的数据表明每年有143个事故是直接由慢行司机引起的。
The model suggests that even with lower interest rates, America's growth rate could slow by more than a percentage point next year.
这个模型表明即使利率下降了，明年美国的经济增长率下降也会超过一个百分点。
But the average decline in GDP this year is a whopping 6.2%; recovery is expected to be slow.
今年GDP的平均降幅已高达6.2%；而预期的复苏速度却比较慢。
Communications being slow in those days, a dispatch from the king, responding to a viceroy's report, could take more than a year to reach an individual viceroy.
那个时代沟通耗费时日，从国王的命令再到总督的汇报，传达到所有总督需要一年以上。
And even though I had a slow start in my freshman year, I made up for it by doing an honor's thesis.
尽管在大学一年级时我启动慢了些，但最终我以优等论文完成了学业。
High oil prices and the impact of a traditionally slow season for travel in the fourth quarter will hurt airlines' profitability in the second half of the year, they said.
油价高居不下，再加上第四季度一直是国内的旅游淡季，航空公司下半年的收益将受到严重影响。
China grew by nearly 12 percent in the first quarter of the year and the prospect of a sharp slow down before the end of the year is quiet unnerving for stock markets.
今年头一季度中国增长了将近12%，而在今年底以前大幅减缓的预期会让股票市场非常不安。
That is most true of the Fed, which slashed rates between 2001 and 2003, held them at 1% for a year and then raised them in slow, predictable quarter-point steps, fuelling the housing boom.
这一批评对美联储来说恰如其分：它在2001年至2003年间持续降息，使利率低到1%并维持了一年，然后一成不变地以每季度四分之一个百分比的速度缓缓加息，这无疑是对房市繁荣火上加油。
That is most true of the Fed, which slashed rates between 2001 and 2003, held them at 1% for a year and then raised them in slow, predictable quarter-point steps, fuelling the housing boom.
这一批评对美联储来说恰如其分：它在2001年至2003年间持续降息，使利率低到1%并维持了一年，然后一成不变地以每季度四分之一个百分比的速度缓缓加息，这无疑是对房市繁荣火上加油。
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