The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down.
关键在于增长方向正确，单位产能逐季增加，开支逐季下降。
Private consumption, in particular, increased by 0.4% quarter on quarter, following a contraction of 0.2% in the previous quarter.
尤其是私人消费，在上季度收缩了0.2%之后，本季度比上季度增长了0.4%。
Looking specifically at NSN, a joint venture with Siemens AG, revenues were down 20% year-on-year this quarter, and 14% quarter on quarter.
具体看看诺基亚西门子通信公司。这家诺基亚与西门子的合资企业当季收益较去年同期下滑20%，较上个季度下滑14%。
South Korea recorded real GDP growth of 2.3% quarter on quarter in the second quarter of 2009-a stronger performance than the Economist Intelligence Unit expected.
韩国公布了第二季度GDP增长情况，环比增长2.3%(比上季度增长)，相对于先前经济学人智库的专家所预测的GDP增长率，2.3%是一个强势复苏的信号。
On top of that, despite issuing guidance last quarter that gross margin would be down for the quarter, it rose three percentage points year-over-year to 40.9 percent.
最重要的是，尽管曾经预计上一季度的毛利率将下降，而实际上升三个百分点，使得全年增长达到40.9%。
According to preliminary estimates, output grew by 3.5% on an annual basis in the fourth quarter of 2006, much faster than expected and up sharply from the third quarter.
据初步估计，2006年四季度的总产量比上年同期增长3.5%，远远超出预期，也明显高出三季度。
On August 31st it said that output had grown by 8.8% in the second quarter compared with the same quarter last year.
8月31日，据说，今年的第二季度较去年同期经济增长了8.8%。
GDP fell by 1.9% in the first quarter of 2009 and was 4.1% down on the first quarter of 2008.
2009年第一季度，GDP下降了1.9%，而2008年同期GDP下降了4.1%。
McAfee, with revenue of $1.93 billion last year, sells a great deal of software on a subscription basis, which can smooth out financial results from quarter to quarter and year to year.
而如果拥有了迈克菲以销售大量软件的收费为基础的19.3亿美元的收入，它可以平稳顺利的完成季度的财务业绩到每年的业绩。
The company estimates that the industry as a whole sold 255m phones in the first quarter, down 14% on the year and a 16% drop compared with the last quarter of 2008.
这家公司估计第一季度整个手机行业共售出2.55亿部手机，比去年同期下降14%，与去年第四季度相比，下跌了16%。
The German economy pulled out of recession in the second quarter, growing by 0.3% quarter-on-quarter.
德国经济二季度走出衰退，季环比增长0.3%。
Japan's economy fell by an annualised 2.4% in the second quarter, figures released on August 13th showed, after growing strongly in the first quarter.
8月13日发布的数据显示，日本经济在第一个季度涨势强劲后，第二个季度下降了该年度的2.4%。
Global initial public offering (IPO) volumes reached $280.2bn, the second highest annual volume on record after 2007 – again driven by an extraordinary fourth quarter, up 133% on the third quarter.
全球初始发行股票数量达到了2802亿，创下自2007年第二次年度最高，第四季度再一次由于一个特别的驱动，比第三季度上升了133％。
Last month, Nokia said it reckoned the entire mobile phone industry shipped 288m units in the quarter, down 7% on the same period a year ago, but up 7% on the second quarter.
诺基亚在上个月表示，它估计整个手机产业在本季度出货量为2.88亿台，比去年同期下降7%，但比第二季度上升7%。
In seasonally adjusted, quarter-on-quarter terms, the economy expanded by 2.3% after contracting by 5.9% in the fourth quarter of 2008 and by 1.8% in the first quarter of 2009.
就季节性调整，各季度的比较而言，经济继2008年四季度收缩了5.9%和2009年一季度收缩1.8%之后增长了2.3%。
Coal-fired electricity and oil sales each climbed 24 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, on the heels of similar increases in the fourth quarter.
煤、电和石油销售在第一年分别同比上涨了24%，延续了去年第四季度的增长趋势。
Figures released on December 7th showed that Iceland's GDP rose by 1.2% in the third quarter (Ireland's third-quarter GDP rose by 0.5%, according to figures published on December 16th).
12月7日公布的数据显示，冰岛的GDP在第三季度上升了1.2%(根据12月16日发布的数据可知，爱尔兰的第三季度GDP只提高了0.5%)。
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。
It expects volumes in the second quarter to be flat or slightly up on the first quarter.
诺基亚预计，第二季度销售量将持平或略高于第一季度。
Making a simple forecast based on the past few months 'data suggests that world GDP will fall from 3.8% in the first quarter to 3.3% in the second quarter.
根据过去几个月的数据，可以做出一个简单的预测：全球GDP的增速将会从第一季度的3.8%降至第二季度的3.3%。
This highlights the fact that, while the lowest point of the downturn has probably passed (which quarter-on-quarter comparisons would indicate), the recovery is occurring from a low base.
这突出表明一个事实：虽然经济下滑的最低点可能已经过去(季度与季度的对比能显示出来)，但经济复苏的起点低。
The central bank's new quarter-on-quarter number, if accurate, has some important implications.
央行新的季度环比数据如果准确的话，则有重要意义。
The US figure would translate to a quarter-on-quarter expansion rate of about 0.8%.
美国的数据若转化为季度环比，则增速为0.8%左右。
This is the first time the statistics agency has published quarter-on-quarter economic growth data, which analysts say is a better gauge of the economy's momentum.
这是统计局首次发布的当季经济环比增长数据，分析家称这将更好地衡量经济趋势。
This is the first time the statistics agency has published quarter-on-quarter economic growth data, which analysts say is a better gauge of the economy's momentum.
这是统计局首次发布的当季经济环比增长数据，分析家称这将更好地衡量经济趋势。
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