Exceptionally dry weather over the past year had cut agricultural production.
过去一年里异常干旱的气候降低了农业产量。
For example, during past ice ages, glaciers advanced down through North America and Europe and gradually cut off parts of populations from one another.
例如，在过去的冰河时代，冰川向下穿过北美和欧洲，逐渐切断了部分人口之间的联系。
In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens County have been cut in half.
在过去的四年里，雅典县的福利名单被削减了一半。
I cut through the courtyard, past the empty granite benches where I'd met Gates.
我穿过院子，经过那些空的花岗岩长椅，我在那里遇到了盖茨。
Past assessments of the Brazilian rain forest have used satellite images to tally deforested areas, where farmers and ranchers have clear-cut and burned all the trees.
对巴西雨林过去的评估已使用卫星图像来记录被砍伐的地区，那里的农民和牧场主把所有的树都砍光并烧掉了。
Cut off from the parents of their past and the children who should be their future, they seek a hesitant solace together walking side by side by the sea in the dark.
离开了代表他们过去的父母以及将代表他们未来的子女，他们一起在夜色浓重的海边漫步，寻找着某种游移不定的慰藉。
Angel Park, which used to use almost 2 million gallons of water a night, has cut its water usage in half over the past 15 years.
过去，天使公园每晚通常要用2百万加仑水，其用水量在过去15年间减少了一半。
That fine volcanic ash could pose a risk to jet engines, which have cut out in the past after exposure to similar volcanic material.
可怕的火山灰可能对喷气式发动机造成威胁，过去当发动机遇到类似的火山灰物质时，引擎就会突然停转。
Mr Gates has high hopes that the number of children who die each year can be cut by half, to 5m, within 20 years, just as it was cut by half in the past half-century.
盖茨强烈希望儿童的死亡率可以减半至500万每年在接下来的20年里，正如在过去的半个世纪所达到的效果一样。
Given the deficits that have mounted upover the past decade, we can’t afford to make these investments unless we’realso willing to cut what we don’t need.
在过去的十年中财政赤字不断增加，只有在我们愿意砍掉那些不必要的开支之后我们才有可能负担得起这样的投入。
Promises to cut business regulations are good but in the past they have seldom been met.
减少商业法规的承诺是可取的，但按照过去的经验来看，也只是说说而已。
As airlines have cut costs, they have also reduced capacity over the past two years, meaning there will be few spare seats when flights resume.
因为航空公司削减成本，他们过去两年时间缩减了运力，这就意味着即使航班恢复运营，机上也很少会有多余的空位。
Over the past six weeks, Nicky, 42, has cut her daily routine, and all the products associated with it, out of her life altogether.
在过去的六个星期，42岁的女性尼奇做了一个极端的生活体验：彻底抛弃所有美容化妆用品。
Wheat prices on the Chicago futures market have risen by about 50 percent during the past year, partly because droughts in Australia and Russia have cut back global supply.
芝加哥期货市场上的小麦价格在过去一年里上升了大约百分之50，部分原因是澳大利亚和俄罗斯的干旱导致全球小麦供应量减少。
To help spur lending, resuscitate America's moribund housing sector, and boost the economy as a whole, the Federal Reserve has aggressively cut interest rates during the past year.
为了帮助人们借贷、重新振兴美国奄奄一息的住房业，进而推动整体经济，美国联邦储备委员会在过去一年已经几次大幅度削减利率。
In the past, India was able to use DDT effectively in indoor residual spraying to cut dramatically the number of malaria cases and fatalities.
印度过去能有效将滴滴涕用于室内残留喷洒已显著减少疟疾病例和死亡人数。
The Fed cut was intended to offset the sharp tightening in credit conditions in the past two months that threatens to plunge a weakening economy into a deep recession.
美联储减息旨在缓和近两个月信贷急剧紧缩的状况，这种形势有可能拖累日渐疲弱的美国经济陷入深度衰退。
Over the past decade the amount of fat in pork has been cut 30% and the amount in beef reduced 6% to 7%.
在过去的十年里，猪肉脂肪含量减少了30%，牛肉脂肪含量减少了6%到7%。
The net effect will be familiar: central banks will have underwritten the markets as they have so often in the past 25 years. Rates were cut in response to market wobbles in 1987, 1998 and 2001.
其最终效果大家耳熟能详：央行将对市场进行认购，过去25以来它经常如此行动：1987年、1998年和2001年，为了应对市场波动，都曾经降低过利息。
In the past, Spain's labour courts have taken a dim view of firms seeking to cut jobs.
在有关企业寻求裁员的做法上，西班牙劳工法院采用了一种模糊的观点。
CEO Stuart Gulliver also looks like he's making good on his plan to cut costs and focus on growth markets, announced this past May.
同时，银行CEO斯图亚特•格利佛眼下似乎正在按部就班地执行今年五月宣布的削减成本和关注增长市场的计划。
The number of countries that have successfully cut their malaria burden in half over the past decade continues to rise.
过去十年中，成功使疟疾负担减半的国家在继续增加。
They have used it to cut pay in the past. Still, although the vote is not binding, it is seriously embarrassing.
股东们曾想利用投票来减薪，尽管投票不具约束力但还是很令人为难。
During the past years, many forests have been cut down and the living conditions of the tigers are becoming worse and worse.
在过去妁几年中，许多森林被砍伐，这使者虎的生存环境越来越糟。
The bank argues that on most measures, for example the extent to which its loan book is backed by collateral, it has cut risk over the past decade.
渣打银行说，从多数而言看贷款账目由抵押物品承担。过去十年里，这成功降低了银行的风险。
Mr Piech has said in the past that a full-blown combination of all three could cut costs by as much as 1 billion a year.
皮耶希在过去也提到过，这三家公司的全面合并后，每年可以节省1亿欧元的成本。
Central Banks have repeatedly cut or held down interest rates over the past 25 years in an attempt to boost bank profits and prop up asset prices.
为提升银行利润，推高资产价格，过去25年里央行屡次降低和维持低利率。
Central Banks have repeatedly cut or held down interest rates over the past 25 years in an attempt to boost bank profits and prop up asset prices.
为提升银行利润，推高资产价格，过去25年里央行屡次降低和维持低利率。
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