The subway was delayed for quite a while, or rather for a whole quarter of an hour.

地铁阻塞了好一阵子，确切地说，有整整一刻钟霎时间。

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It produces nearly a quarter of the world's greenhouse gases each year and has stubbornly made it clear that it doesn't intend to do a whole lot about it.

它每年产生全球近四分之一的温室气体，并顽固地表明它不打算为此做什么。

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Spanish GDP grew by just 0.3% (an annualised rate of 1.2%) in the first quarter, when the euro area as a whole expanded by 0.8%.

第一季度，西班牙GDP增长仅仅0.3%(相当于年化增长率1.2%)，其中欧洲区域总体增长率为0.8%。

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For the UK as a whole, the first quarter of the year saw total workloads edge higher.

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When the dust settled, Goldman posted its first quarterly loss in over a decade and Wall Street as a whole had its worst quarter since the depths of the financial crisis.

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As a result, for the first quarter of 2010 as a whole, job growth averaged 54, 000 per month.

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