At best, watching television can be educational as well as entertaining, but nobody wishes to raise literacy levels by simply sitting in front of a TV box.
电视至多有教育和娱乐功能，但没人指望简单地通过看电视来提高读写水平。
Hourly earnings rose just 1.7% in the year to March, a paltry raise that will soon be eaten up by the rising cost of petrol and grocery bills.
到今年三月份每小时工资将仅上升1.7%——这点微不足道的提高将很快被上涨的汽油和杂货帐单费用抵消掉。
If Congress fails to raise the ceiling by August 2nd, U.S. sovereign debt could be cut to the lowest level ever.
如果美国国会不能在8月2日之前提高额度，主权债务将被削减至历史最低水平。
Taken together, such measures will enhance the perceived fairness of the fiscal-consolidation package, and could then be supplemented by a carbon tax or higher VAT to raise an additional 1% of GDP.
综合起来看，这些措施将提高财政调整一揽子计划的公正感，而且可以通过碳税或高增值税提高占GDP1%的额外收入。
“If we take the overall risk of breast cancer among women to be about 10% (not counting abortion), and raise it by 30%, we get 13% lifetime risk,” Brind explains.
“所有妇女患乳癌的几率是10%（不考虑是否堕过胎），而堕胎的妇女是30%，所以总体来讲我们死亡风险提高到了13%。”Brind教授解释道。
My employer would then be free to decide if my services are worth it. Even though I am seeking rents by asking for a raise, this is not what economists mean by “rent seeking.”
若我要求加薪，我便是在寻租，但雇我的人可以自由地决定我提供的服务是不是值这个价钱。
Will the new movie be welcomed by its spectators or just raise another wave of disappointment?
那么这部新的电影将会受到观众欢迎，还是引起新一波的失望呢？
His team reckons that any serious proposal to cut entitlements or raise taxes would be ripped apart by Republicans and interest groups.
他的团队认为，任何削减津贴或增加税收的严肃提议都会遭到共和党和利益集团的反对。
The securities can be converted at will by a bank to raise its core capital levels.
银行可以在任何时候转换这些证券以提高核心资本水平。
Not really knowing what a Bush fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raise their hands except one boy — Johnny.
孩子们并不知道到底什么叫“布什的支持者”，可为了讨老师喜欢，所有的孩子都举起了小手，只除了一个男孩——约翰尼。
We want to update to a current look because we need to be more relevant to our customers so that we can raise our rates by 10%.
我们要更新当前的形象，因为我们需要更多的相关客户，以便我们能够把我们的利率提高10 %。
By the time they drive home, I’m backdowntown in my housing voucher studio apartment that used to be just a tinyhotel room until somebody crowded in a stove and a fridge to raise the rent.
我租来的公寓只有一个工作室那么大，从前它只是一间很小的旅馆房间，之后有个人塞进来一个炉子和一个冰箱来提高租金。
Even with stronger exports, growth is likely to be too sluggish to raise incomes by a lot or offer much support to employment.
就算出口进一步走强，经济增长可能也不足以大幅提升收入水平、有力支撑就业人数。
First, Mr Obama will be (rightly) reluctant to raise taxes and tempted to extend parts of the stimulus package if unemployment is not dropping by 2010.
第一个风险是，如果失业率到2010年还没有下滑，那么奥巴马将(正确地)不会愿意增加税收并且会尝试延长部分项目的激励计划。
Even the belated stress tests raise eyebrows: they will be undertaken by the utilities themselves and checked by two regulatory agencies that previously failed to supervise the utilities properly.
即使迟到的压力测试令人侧目：压力测试将由公用事业单位自己进行，并且由两家管理机构检查，这两家机构先前未能有效监督公用事业。
Your desire to come to class to study, to go out with friends, to read a book, to raise a family, to be — to do anything are priorities set by your emotions.
你想要到教室学习，跟朋友一起出去，读书，抚养家庭，你所做任何事情的优先级由情感设定。
In the results of "stress tests" released by federal regulators last week, bank of America was judged to be one of the weaker Banks and ordered to raise more capital.
上星期由美洲银行进行压力测试结果显示美洲银行被评为较弱的银行之一且被命令筹措更多资金。
And, by the way, if you ever feel that you are in a compromising position, someone is pressuring you for information, just raise your hand and ask to be reseated.
另外，如果你觉得你在一个折中的位置，有人强迫看你的信息，只需要举起手来要求调换座位。
If it does, the Fed might be forced to raise interest rates by more than is now forecast.
如果这样，美联储或许被迫以超过目前预期的幅度加息。
The Robin Hood tax proposes to raise several hundred billion pounds, and it will ultimately be paid not by "bankers" but by all of us, with the burden Shared unpredictably.
罗宾汉税按计划能筹集数千亿英镑，而这笔钱最终不会由“银行家”来支付，而是以不可预料的方式分摊到我们每个人头上。
NO ONE will be laughing on April 1st when Whirlpool and Electrolux raise the prices of their washing machines by a whopping 8-10%.
惠尔普和伊莱克斯公司将于4月1日将其洗衣机的价格大幅上调8%-10%，到时没有人会欢笑。
You will dramatically raise your level of attractiveness by daily practicing to be more optimistic.
通过每日练习变得更乐观，你能显著的提高你的魅力。
He says he expects South Korea to be the first to raise rates in November, followed by other Asian economies early next year.
他说，他预计韩国将于今年11月率先上调利率，明年年初其他亚洲经济体也将步韩国后尘。
Mr Obama says he has asked his team to come up with a two-year plan to raise employment by 2.5m more than would otherwise be the case.
奥巴马说他要求自己的团队提出一个两年计划，以创造250万个新职位。
It can be explained, that if fuzzy math is applied into decision analysis by making fuzzy sets to participate in decision making, it can raise accuracy and reliability of the decision result.
把模糊数学的知识应用到决策分析中，使模糊集参与决策，可以提高决策结果的准确性和可信度。
Whatever the reason for the raise may be, Price's employees are nothing but thankful to their CEO, as evidenced by their lavish gift.
无论涨薪水的原因是什么，普莱斯的员工们都非常感谢他们的老板，这件大方的礼物就是最好的证明。
Whatever the reason for the raise may be, Price's employees are nothing but thankful to their CEO, as evidenced by their lavish gift.
无论涨薪水的原因是什么，普莱斯的员工们都非常感谢他们的老板，这件大方的礼物就是最好的证明。
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