联邦储备委员会将利率降低了0.5个百分点。

The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by half a point.

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如果财政清廉导致利率降低，那么也可能使支出进一步下降。

If fiscal rectitude leads to lower interest rates, that could allow spending to fall still further.

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即使名义利率维持不变，实际利率降低或变为负数。

Even so their rates remain, in real terms, low or negative.

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It's contracting so the Fed is trying to prevent a serious recession by cutting interest rates; they've been cutting them rapidly.

它在减小,所以美联储正在试图阻止一个因为利率缩减,而产生的严重的经济衰退；,但是他们最近一直在降低利率。

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The Fed then again cut interest rates in 2001 in response to the very definite weakness of the economy.

美联储在2001年又一次降低了利率1,为了适应经济中明确的弱点。

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So if it's slowing, rates cut.

若经济增长缓慢，则降低利率。

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