SQUEEZING a decent profit from a slow year is a pleasing knack for any company.

在经济发展缓慢的一年里能挤出一个体面的利润额来是任何企业都乐于采取的技巧。

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Tourism shopping tax refund firm Global Blue is predicting that the final quarter of 2014 will boost what has been a slow year in terms of international spend in Britain.

旅游购物退税公司举世蓝联（Global Blue）预测，就英国的国际消费而言，2014年最后一个季度将提振英国今年低迷的国际消费。

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Beginning in 2004 the percentage of the world's population that became ill with TB in a given year flattened and then began a slow decline.

从2004年开始，在给定的年份中全世界因结核病而病倒的人口百分比不再增长，随后开始缓慢下降。

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Central bank policymakers said they expect a slow recovery in economic activity to begin later this year.

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are slow to do a second edition of their book because if they got it out this year it would be a bad year to get it out because everything is changing.

他们怕自己的书出版时,恰逢乱世,因为现在,整个世界都在变。

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After a slow year in 2009, BMW is also beginning to pick up steam with a redesigned 5-series sedan.

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Last year "was a slow year due to the recession and his prices dwindled, but he still sold paintings at impressive prices, " she added.

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This will be a slow year for the industry as well, Strauss says, who is slashing his estimate for the chip industry's growth to between 3% to 4% percent from 5.9%.

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