If an economy grows by 2% inone quarter and then contracts by 0.5% in each of the next two quarters, it isdeemed to be in recession.
如果一个经济体在一个季度增长2%,而在接下来的而两个季度下跌0.5%,那么他应该被认为是进入衰退。
Lehman Brothers made losses in the two quarters before it collapsed yet continued to accrue a compensation pot not far off the levels of 2007.
雷曼兄弟公司在破产前,连续两个季度亏损,然而其员工报酬并不比2007年的水平差到哪里去。
No one really believes the pace of the past two quarters will last for long: it implies annual growth of 3%, which is more than the euro zone can sustain.
没有人真正相信过去两个季度的增长步伐将持续长久:这意味着3%的年度增长超出欧元区所能维持的幅度。
The big jump in imports, which is likely to be revised up further, appears to be largely restocking after the stronger-than-expected sales of the preceding two quarters.
进口的跳跃性增长,这一数字还可能被修正地更高,看起来是因为在两个季度高于预期的销售额之后商户在补充进货。
Household spending shrank in each of the year's first two quarters.
今年前两个季度的家庭开支均出现下滑。
In fact, the Pentagon's "competed" contracts, based on dollar figures, fell to 55 percent in the first two quarters of 2011.
事实上,2011年的前两个季度,五角大楼的“竞标合同”的总价值下降到了总额的55%。
The economy shrank for only two quarters and is now growing again.
巴经济只衰退了两个季度,现又开始增长。
Japan and the euro area fell into recession (using the definition of two quarters of negative growth) and America was officially declared to have been in recession since December 2007.
以连续两季度负增长的定义来衡量,日本和欧元区已经陷入衰退,而美国则是从2007年十二月已经正式声明进入衰退。
Google's share had increased in all but two quarters since 2006, according to Analysys data.
据该公司的数据显示,自2006年以来,谷歌市场占有率除了两个季度外都实现上升。
And though the economy has grown for each of the past two quarters, the unemployment rate has only just begun to inch downwards.
虽然前两季度经济都有所起色,但是失业率仅刚刚开始略微下降。
Its growth in the past two quarters was too fast to sustain, resulting in a worrisome rise in inflation.
过往两个季度的增长过快,难以维持,导致令人担忧的通胀。
The latest figures represented an abrupt reversal of an emerging trend of the previous two quarters.
最新数据意味着,此前两个季度中国外汇储备增长速度日渐放缓的趋势突然发生逆转。
Growth will slow to 0.5% in the final three months of 2010 and then to 0.3% and 0.4% in the first two quarters of 2011, in each case slower than the OBR had previously projected.
2010年四季度,增长率将下降至0.5%,而且2011年前两季度,增长率将分别为0.3%和0.4%,这些增长率都比预算责任办公室曾预测的要低。
Mr. Bailey warned the company faces "a tougher environment" in the first two quarters of next year, when he believes consumer demand will further deteriorate.
Bailey认为苹果公司在明年的头两个季度里将面临“更艰难的处境”。
Britain, it reckons, is the only one facing recession (two quarters of negative growth) this year.
英国是预测中今年唯一面临衰退的国家,连续两个季度的负增长(负增长达到了负百分之二十五)。
Since then, yields on Irish bonds have fallen nearly half after two quarters of better-than expected export growth.
自那以来,随着有两个季度爱尔兰的出口增速都好于预期,爱尔兰债券的收益率已下降近半。
"We upped our intensity and it created problems," said Rivers of their second-half defense, which held the Knicks to 32.6 percent (14-of-43) and Anthony to 1-of-11 over the final two quarters.
“我们提升防守密度,并给他们带来了麻烦,”里佛斯这样谈他们下半场的防守,下半场尼克斯的命中率只有32.6%(43投14中),安东尼只有11投1中的惨淡表现。
The first step is to do the cleaning work of the sealing ring, the owner can one or two quarters at a purge of the sealing ring.
第一步就是要做好密封圈的清洗工作,车主可以每隔一两个季度对密封圈进行一次清洗。
Last week the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported fourth-quarter labour-productivity growth of 6.9%, after increases of 7.6% and 7.8% in the previous two quarters.
上周劳工统计局公布的第四季度劳工生产力增加了6.9%,而在前两个季度这个数字分别是7.6%和7.8%。
During the two quarters before OpenTable went public, no venture-backed startups staged an IPO.
在OpenTable上市前两个季度,没有一家获风投支持的初创企业进行IPO。
And whatever the cause, the sales downturn is giving Marshall Motor Company serious problems: earnings were slashed in the previous two quarters.
无论是何缘由,销售低谷使马歇尔汽车公司面临着非常严峻的困难:前两个季度的收人锐减。
The OECD this week pointed to Britain as the only big rich-world economy that will suffer a minor technical recession-two quarters of falling gdp-this year.
经合组织本周指出,作为唯一的大的富裕世界的经济体,今年英国将遭受很小的技术性经济衰退——2个季度的GDP下降。
Nokia and Siemens AG put their networks businesses into joint venture that began operations in April and has posted two quarters of operating-profit losses.
诺基亚和西门子将各自的网络业务整合起来,组建了合资公司,于今年4月开始运营,但已连续两个季度宣布营业利润亏损。
Nokia and Siemens AG put their networks businesses into joint venture that began operations in April and has posted two quarters of operating-profit losses.
诺基亚和西门子将各自的网络业务整合起来,组建了合资公司,于今年4月开始运营,但已连续两个季度宣布营业利润亏损。
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