U.S. commuters and companies began sharply paring fuel purchases this year as pump prices soared to over $4.10 a gallon nationwide by July.

美国驾车一族和企业今年开始大幅减少燃料开支，到7月份时，全美汽油平均价格已大幅攀升至超过每加仑4.10美元。

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Scientists the world over are exploring ways to capture carbon dioxide and pump it deep underground as a compressed gas.

世界各地的科学家们正在探寻捕捉二氧化碳，把它压缩后深深地泵入地下的方法。

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Thanks to “quantitative easing” and other unorthodox measures to pump in liquidity, central banks’ balance-sheets are swollen—to well over twice their pre-crisis size in Britain and America.

由于采取了“量化宽松”及其他超常措施注入流动性，英美两国央行的资产负债表规模剧增——超过危机前一倍有余。

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Moreover, even if all the spending is new--extremely unlikely--pump priming loses its effectiveness over time.

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He seemed to have "pump-and-dump" written all over him.

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Wilco recalls one of his contributors, Aaron Preine, telling him last year he saw Duncan actually pump a fist -- a gametime rarity over the big man's career -- after realizing that no reporters wanted to talk to him in the locker room after a playoff game.

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