India's stock markets have plunged to a three-year low despite assurances by top officials that Asia's third largest economy can be cushioned from the global economic turmoil.

尽管印度高级官员表示，印度经济能够抵御住全球金融市场动荡的冲击，但是这个亚洲第三大经济体的股市仍然暴跌到三年来的最低点。

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Those with jobs in banking, finance and law will be somewhat cushioned from the impact, but graduates starting out in the public sectors will really feel the pinch this year.

那些在银行界，金融界或者法律界工作的毕业生们会觉得稍微好一些，但另一些在公营部门下工作的则会觉得今年将十分困苦。

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Aside from that, and a general weakness that makes his cushioned wheelchair useful, he looks to be in great shape.

除此之外，他的软垫轮椅在虚弱的时候能派上用场，另外他看起来不错。

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But they have an enormously long way to fall, and ought to be cushioned by the media conglomerates of which they are a part.

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Yet while the statements about aspirin have to be cushioned in the vaguest generalities, snake oil flim-flam can be huckstered in the most truth-defying way, thanks to a 1994 law coaxed through Congress by the people who make these drugs.

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The struggle to make a profit and reduce debt is still being waged at some big companies, including Daiei, once the biggest supermarket chain, Japan Airlines, Sanyo Electric, Rakuten, the biggest internet shopping mall, and Softbank (though the last could be cushioned by its large holding of Yahoo Japan shares).

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