America's battered housing sector also got a dose of encouraging news, with a national index reporting a three percent jump in housing prices in the second quarter of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

During this part, when you're doing a quarter of a circle, this is supposed to be a quarter of a circle.

在这部分,当你沿着四分之一圆运动,这就是个一个圆的四分之一

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Then I look up here and say 408 00:20:43,112 --> 00:20:44,894 "Well, in this duple pattern I have two of these quarter notes."

然后我看了看这里这是两拍子的形式,有两个四分音符

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Larger prospects for growth are being proclaimed by government officials after this year's defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, which brought an end to a quarter century of civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

So, this is about a quarter of the density of steel.

所以镁的密度是贴的四分之一。

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He notes that is an optimistic figure. Economic figures recently released by the Russian Federal Statistics Service show the GDP declined in the first quarter of this year by 9.5 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

These units we call bars or measures and just to finish this off down here we would have three quarter notes of course, in this particular arrangement.

这些单元我们称之为小节,我们来把接下来的写完,这里我们有三个四分音符,当然,按照特定的安排

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"There are almost a quarter of a million concealed handgun permit holders in Virginia alone and this will allow them again to have a choice when they go out to eat."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

And this whole note obviously can be subdivided into two half notes and each of the half notes into two quarter notes each of these quarter notes into two eighth notes, and so on.

这个全音符,很明显,可以再分为两个半音符,每个半音符又可以再细分为两个四分之一音符,每个四分之一音符可以再分为两个八分之一音符,等等

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Silvia expects the situation to improve soon. "I would suspect that the jobs numbers would turn positive by the second quarter of this year, so probably another two or three months out we'll get some positive jobs numbers."

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

Asian stocks rose after the DOW Jones industrial average passed the psychologically important Cohen says it is not clear how much longer markets can continue the strong gains, but says it is unlikely they will return to the crisis environment of the first quarter of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15