Last month the central bank cut short-term interest rates by half a point. It did so to help keep problems in the housing and credit markets from harming the wider economy and causing a recession.
上个月中央银行把短期利率下调了0.5个百分点，这么做是为了不让房产和信贷市场的问题损害到更多的经济领域，造成经济萧条。
During the second half of his short life, Poe went after a literary career in New York, Richmond, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
在他短暂生涯中的第二段时期，坡以一名文学工作者的身份去往纽约，里士满，费城和巴尔的摩。
It's really short, less than half a minute; just a piece of cake for you.
视频很短才不到半分钟，对你而言就是小菜一碟。
Cell phones account for about half of all operating revenue in China's telecom industry, with short message and wireless Internet services seen as important growth sectors, the agency said.
在中国电信行业，手机业务占到了大约所有运营营收中的一半，其中手机短信和无线互联网服务被视作重要的增长点。
Key travel can be as short as 2mm, about half that of early designs.
键程也仅有短短两毫米，大约是早期设计的一半距离。
It made me remember Baudelaire's words that modernity is transition, short, incident; this is an half of art. Another is forever and fixedness.
这叫我想起波德莱尔曾经说过的现代性就是过渡、短暂、偶然，这是艺术的一半，另一半是永恒和不变。
He had a lot to explain, and no time for more than a short meeting. Thus a lengthy briefing had to be telescoped into half an hour.
他有许多要说明的，但又没时间开长会，所以只好把一份长汇报削短成半小时的简介。
Everyone had an opinion about the retro short-shorts worn by the Lakers in the first half Sunday.
每个人都对湖人上半场的复古短裤有了看法。
Four years ago the endowment released the report “Reading at Risk, ” which showed that fewer than half of Americans over 18 read novels, short stories, plays or poetry.
四年前，基金会发表过一篇名为“阅读面临危机”的文章，表明美国满18岁的成年人读小说、短篇、戏剧和诗歌的人数不超过一半。
After making a short test flight at 4:15 a.m., Bleriot set off half an hour later.
布莱·里奥凌晨4点15分作了一次短距离试飞，半小时后便正式出发了。
Frequent short breaks are better than less-frequent, long breaks. Set your software timer to stop you every half hour or so.
经常性的短暂休息比非经常性的长时间休息要好。所以设置你的计时软件大约每半小时提醒你一次。
Together with the IOC, we have co-constructed this very first Youth Olympic Games in these short and eventful two and a half years.
在短短的两年半里，我们与国际奥委会一起筹备了第一届青年奥林匹克运动会。
THE half-life of official opposition to nuclear power in Britain has been very short.
在英国，官方反对使用核能的半衰期很短。
The study also found that only about half the Finnish children diagnosed with A.D.H.D. had deficits in short-term memory and self-control.
这项研究同时发现在芬兰被诊断为ADHD的孩子中仅仅有一半有短期记忆和自我控制能力不足的症状。
These rates, which are already at a half-century low, mainly reflect expected future short-term rates.
这个利率反映的是未来的短期利率，它已经处在半个世纪以来的低水平。
Tis not much, your Majesty, yet perchance it may beguile a short half-hour for want of a better.
不多，陛下，不过，也许因为找不到更好的话题，就花短短的半个钟头讲讲。
Secondly, the game is extremely short - one play through will last around half an hour.
第二，这个游戏很短小，打通他大概也就是半个小时。
Radioactive iodine in food is of immediate concern, but it has a relatively short half-life and will naturally decay over a short time frame.
食品中的放射性碘直接引起人们的关注，但是它的半衰期相对较短并将在短时间内自然衰变。
Since pure foaming agent with short half-value period causes a poor plugging effect for high-permeability reservoir with water channeling, this paper studies on gel foam sysem.
针对纯发泡剂半衰期较短、对已形成注入水窜流通道的高渗透储层封堵效果较差的实际问题，开展了凝胶泡沫体系的研究。
Vile indeed, but habit-forming and therefore lethally dangerous: it cuts short the lives of between a third and half of its practitioners.
吸烟有百害而无一利，但却容易成瘾，因此危害是致命的：吸烟者中三分之一到一半的人寿命缩短。
"I've had two and a half years of worrying I was going to lose my house", Short tells me.
“我有两年半的时间都在担心我会失去我的房子”，史特对我说。
"I've had two and a half years of worrying I was going to lose my house," Short tells me.
“我有两年半的时间都在担心我会失去我的房子”，史特对我说。
“The more we seek satisfactions in material goods, the less we find them there,” Ryan says. “The satisfaction has a short half-life -- it’s very fleeting.”
“越想在物质生活上寻找满足感，越难找到，”瑞安说：“这种满足感半衰期很短，很容易消失。”
Towns have been erased; hundreds of thousands are homeless; food and water are in short supply; at least a million and a half households are without electricity.
许多城镇成为一片废墟；上百万人流离失所；食物和饮用水短缺；至少150万户人断电。
Half the group was lucky enough to get out of bed for an hour a day to spin around in the NASA Short-Range Human Centrifuge.
其中一半人有幸每天下床，在美国航空航天局（NASA）的短距人体离心机里进行旋转体验。
Some developers have started to increase prices and industry reports say the city's high-end properties may be in short supply in the second half of the year.
也有调查报告显示，上海下半年高档住宅市场或将面临供应断档。
Some developers have started to increase prices and industry reports say the city's high-end properties may be in short supply in the second half of the year.
也有调查报告显示，上海下半年高档住宅市场或将面临供应断档。
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