In one respect the bill actually waters down current legislation, by preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating coal-burning power stations.

另外，从某种角度来说，该法案淡化了现行立法，因为它事实上阻止了环保局对于燃煤发电站的管理。

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When confronted with an uncomfortable set of facts, the tendency is often to double down on their current position rather than publicly admit to being wrong.

面对一系列令人不舒适的事实，人们往往更加坚持他们目前的立场，而不是公开承认自己是错的。

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"The current state of the economy has slowed things down a little bit here recently.

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since all the information is in the current price, you don't have to worry about whether it went up or down yesterday, to decide what it's going to do today.

因为当前价格代表了所有信息，你就不需要去考虑昨天股价,是涨了还是跌了，再去判断它今天的价格会怎么变化。

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This has pushed down current prices and pushed up future prices of pork.

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Squeezing down current consumption and encouraging maximum saving and investment produces a higher growth rate and higher standard of living some time in the future.

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Analysts have universally lowered their estimates in the past sixty days, pushing the current quarter estimate down slightly and the current year estimate down significantly.

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