Many critics had called 2008 a 'weak year', especially in contrast with 2007's crop of highly successful, but also critically acclaimed, movies such as No Country For Old Men.
很多影评人称2008年为“疲软之年”，尤其是与2007年相比，因为2007年有多部票房成功、评价也高的电影，如《老无所依》。
Horseshoe crabs kept in the dark continuously for a year were found to maintain a persistent rhythm of brain activity that similarly adapts their eyes on a daily schedule for bright or for weak light.
人们发现，连续一年被关在黑暗的环境中的鲎仍然可以保持稳定的大脑活动节奏，这种稳定的节奏也使得它们的眼睛适应每日或明或暗的光线。
Hindered by higher taxes and weak demand for its exports, Mexico's economy is seen only partially recovering this year.
由于高税收和出口需求疲软的阻碍，墨西哥经济今年看来只会部分复苏。
Last year, I visited a special school for students with weak sight or hearing loss.
去年，我拜访了一所为视障和听障学生所开设的特殊学校。
It is worth paying a high price to stave off a liquidity crisis over New Year: better that weak Banks are able to borrow at the same rates as strong ones than that they are not able to borrow at all.
为了避免在新的一年出现流动性危机，付出如此高昂的代价是完全值得的：对弱小的银行来说，能够以与强大的银行相同的利率借款，比完全借不到不知好上多少。
They may look like microcap stocks, but it's only because prices have been pounded to ridiculously low prices by fears that a year of weak business is likely to extend infinitely into the future.
他们可能看上去象微型股，但只是因为价格遭受了严重打击，跌至了可笑的低价，因为大家都担心一年的业务疲软可能会无限期延伸到未来。
In America weak consumer spending is likely to continue to dampen imports over the next year or so.
在今后的一年或几年间，美国的消费疲软很可能继续影响进口。
Another sure sign of weak demand is that people with jobs aren't deluged with overtime; hours worked have barely budged in the past year.
需求疲软的另一个迹象是，从业者并没有频繁加班；过去一年内的工作时间也没有延长。
If (still a big if) China and others fully implement their stimulus plans, domestic demand could start to recover in the second half of this year even if exports remain weak.
如果(仍然一个大大的如果)中国和其他国家彻底实施了他们的刺激计划，即便出口仍疲软内需将在下半年开始恢复。
Slumdog Millionaire was a wonderful winner, but just a year on the otherfilms on the list look weak as hell – The Reader, Frost/Nixon, Benjamin Button, Milk?
《贫民窟的百万富翁》获奖是很好的，但是那年其他在提名单上的影片弱得一塌糊涂——《朗读者》、《佛罗斯特/尼克松》、《本杰明·巴顿》、《米尔克》？
But we fell a long way, and overall travel business will remain weak for at least a year.
但是，总体旅游业将在至少一年内仍然保持疲软。
Weak economic conditions have prompted analysts to lower their vehicles sales forecasts for this year and next.
分析人士最近纷纷调低了今年和明年的汽车销售预期。
WEAK dollar or no, $46, 000—the price for a single year of undergraduate instruction amid the red brick of Harvard Yard—is expensive.
不管美元疲软与否,在哈佛学院一年四万六千美金的学费还是挺昂贵的!
"Early October data has been worryingly weak for the seasonally strong part of the year," ANZ's credit-trading team wrote in a market commentary on Thursday.
“10月本是销售旺季，可是今年十月初的销售量出奇的低，”ANZ信用交易小组在周四的一份市场报告里说。
The European Union has spent the past year bailing out weak states and their too-big-to-succeed banks, without addressing the productivity problems that laid the weaker states low in the first place.
去年欧盟一直在救助弱国以及大到不能成功的银行(too-big-to-succeed banks)，而没有解决导致弱国出现问题的首要因素——生产率问题。
We saw that last year when the polio epidemic reemerged in West Africa due to weak health care programs in one area of that region.
她说，“去年，当西非某个地区的薄弱卫生计划造成脊髓灰质炎在西非流行时，我们看到了这种效应。
The figure was a slight recovery from the seasonally weak second quarter, when they gained just 12, 400 subscribers. But it's far short of the 401, 300 subscribers gained a year ago.
这个数据显示从第二季度季节性疲软中略有回升，他们仅仅增了12，400个用户，但是与一年前新增的401，300个用户数相比，还是远远不足。
The West still looks weak, with many economies contracting in the second quarter, and even if America begins to grow in the second half of this year, consumer spending looks sickly.
第二季度的西方经济与其他经济体相比之下依旧疲软，即使美国经济自今年下半年开始增长，居民消费仍然萎靡。
The actuaries' newest study estimates that health spending grew little last year, mostly because of the weak economy.
精算师最新的研究估计，去年医疗支出没怎么增加主要是因为经济的疲软。
However, given an expected rise in unemployment across all sectors this year and weak prospects for export markets, confidence will not bounce back rapidly.
然而，在今年所有行业失业率都预计上升以及出口市场的暗淡前景情况下，人们的信心将不会迅速反弹。
But it is particularly weak when you come into the month down year-to-date as we have this year.
但是对于今年，从年初就一直低迷至今，于是这月应当会特别脆弱。
Indian farmers planted less sugarcane last year after sugar prices fell, partly in response to a ban on exports. A weak monsoon also threatens this year's production.
去年糖价下跌以及颁布的出口禁令使得印度农民缩减了甘蔗种植面积，弱季风也影响了今年糖作物产量。
In fact, even as the stock market rallied, yields on 10-year Treasurys fell to record lows, a sign that investors expect the economy to remain weak.
事实上就在股市反弹的时候，10年期美国国债收益率下跌至前所未有的低位，这显示投资者预计美国经济将继续疲软。
While they thought the current US economy remained very weak, they think it will improve by the end of this year.
尽管他们认为当前美国经济依然疲软，但他们相信年底前会有所好转。
The situation is particularly uncertain this year because there has also been a rise in applications from international students, prompted partly by the weak pound making it cheaper to study.
今年的情况特别不确定，因为申请住宿的留学生也增加了，部分是由于英镑疲软学费下降的缘故。
The strains in euro-zone bond markets this year show that there are other ways for markets to drive a wedge between the strong and the weak.
今年欧元区债券市场遭遇的重重压力表明市场能够变相离间强国与弱国间的关系。
The strains in euro-zone bond markets this year show that there are other ways for markets to drive a wedge between the strong and the weak.
今年欧元区债券市场遭遇的重重压力表明市场能够变相离间强国与弱国间的关系。
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