It made squawking sounds about every half hour to indicate it wanted to be fed - a positive sign, researchers said.

大约每过半个小时它就会发出刺耳的叫声提醒人们给它喂食。研究者们称，这是一种积极的信号。

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Children not suffering from such a grave disease could be fed with half that amount - not on a diet like ours, but on plain, basic, life-sustaining food.

没有遭到那种严重疾病的孩子可以用那个数目的半数糊口——不是们那样的食物，只是一般的、基本的、维持生命的食物。

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By 2010, the Fed economists reckon, Labour supply in America will be rising by a mere 0.4% a year, well under half its current rate.

美联储的经济学家们认为，到2010年美国劳动力的供给将会仅以每年0.4%的速度上涨，大大低于目前的一半水平。

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Of course, the crowd must be fed: in an average year, nearly half a million roast chickens, a quarter million sausages, 45, 000 pig's knuckles, and over one hundred whole oxen, spit roasted on giant rotisseries, are consumed.

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The U.S. economy should grow around 4%, but the longer the Fed dithers, the slower the economy will grow in the second half and the tougher it will be for all of us in 2006.

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