但在去年的下半年，虽然美国经济努力争取复苏，但是一百万人还是失去了工作。

But during the second half of last year the economy still managed to lose more than a million jobs.

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奥巴马的“增兵”工作能否奏效，要到今年秋季，也许到明年下半年才能见分晓。

It will not be clear until the autumn, and probably not until late next year, whether Mr Obama's "surge" has worked.

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不过，随着重建工作的展开，日本经济会在今年下半年开始加速增长。

But Japan's economic growth is expected to pick up in the second half of this year as reconstruction gets underway.

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