Caught in a severe budget crunch, many states have sharply scaled back their funding for higher education.
由于面临严重的预算紧缩，许多州大幅削减了对高等教育的资助。
For most of the last decade, this trend has been upward, except for the most severe periods of credit crunch.
近十年的大多数时间里，这一趋势是向上的，除了信用危机最为严重的时期之外。
If there is one lesson everybody should take away from the credit crunch, it is that central bankers, no less than dentists, are only human.
如果说有一个教训是每个人都应该从信贷危机中吸取的，那就是央行行长和牙医一样都是凡人。
He can rely on my support when the crunch comes.
在关键时刻他会得到我的支持的。
We eat while watching TV, we munch on something at our desk at work, we crunch on something while driving and drink something while reading or waiting.
看电视时吃点小零食，工作时嘴里嚼嚼东西，开车时吃点东西，阅读或者等候时也会来点喝的。
"We want that crunch!" she added.
“我们需要那种嘎吱脆！”她补充道。
The mortgage crunch makes matters worse.
贷款紧缩使得情况更糟。
Lufthansa wanted to crunch Numbers.
汉莎航空公司希望用数字来说明问题。
嘎吱嘎吱，吞下。
This autumn is crunch time for Mr Sarkozy.
对萨科齐而言，这个秋季是个危机时期。
A few months later, the credit crunch hit.
几个月后，信贷紧缩爆发。
It also lessens the crunch on election day.
这还能减少选举日出现的混乱。
Denmark has not escaped the credit crunch entirely.
丹麦并没有完全避免信贷危机。
The credit crunch has slashed the revenue from both.
而信贷紧缩使两者的收入大减。
In this light, the credit crunch seems like old news.
在这种情况下，信贷紧缩看来仅是老消息了。
During the credit crunch he ramped up public spending.
在信贷紧缩时期，他缓慢地增加了公共开支。
A crunch in the gravel, and someone rounded the VAT.
碎石嘎吱作响，有人绕到这只染缸这儿来了。
Volvo wins the prize for statistic of the crunch to date.
沃尔沃赢得了迄今为止最大紧缩数据奖。
The credit crunch may also be having lingering effects.
信贷动荡也许还存在延续效应。
All this indicates that the credit crunch is going up-market.
所有这一切表明，信贷紧缩正在走向高档消费市场。
Investors and commentators began talking about a credit crunch.
投资人和评论员开始谈论信用紧缩。
The credit crunch has raised three genuinely awkward questions.
信贷紧缩引发了三个的确十分棘手的问题。
Yet some traders in Athens fear that a crunch cannot be avoided.
但雅典的一部分贸易商担心危机不可避免。
In the worst, Asia won't avoid a credit crunch initiated in Europe.
最坏的情况是：亚洲无法避免源自欧洲的信贷危机。
Recession has only delayed the looming energy crunch (see article).
衰退只不过是延迟了迫在眉睫的能源危机(见文章)。
Plunging housing markets and the credit crunch have put paid to all that.
房地产市场下滑和信贷危机都是其原因的一部分。
In Spain and Ireland, worst hit by the credit crunch, joblessness is rising.
在遭受信用危机冲击最为严重的西班牙和爱尔兰，失业率正在上升。
This water-loaded vegetable has a rep for being all crunch and no nutrition.
这种充满水分的蔬菜是只能嘎吱嘎吱咀嚼而没有营养的代表。
Central Banks that rely on the credit crunch to tame rising prices may regret it.
依靠信贷危机来驯服价格的央行们或许会为此感到遗憾了。
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