However, dire figures for exports in January (a fall of 4.4% compared with December) aroused fears that the hoped-for boom in exports will be stillborn.

1月出口与12月相较下降4.4%，该数据引起人们担心期望中的出口增长会胎死腹中。

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The housing market will not be flooded with eager buyers ever again unless home prices fall to pre-boom levels and the disconnect is corrected.

除非房屋价格下降到大涨前水平，并且偏离得到了纠正，房屋市场将不会再因急切的购买者而变得价格泛滥。

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Part of the problem may be that young men, who during Japan’s free-wheeling boom era rarely saw their workaholic fathers, do not want to fall into the same trap.

这个问题一部分的原因可能是，现在的年轻人都是在日本繁荣的时代出生，他们很少能体会他们父辈的那种拼命工作的精神，而且他们也不希望步他们父辈的后尘。

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This fall has been a boom time for movie biographies.

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The bad news is that 2012 is the year of greatest risk that a bloated bank or over-extended government will be unable to repay its debts - because it is a year when a frightening volume of the loans that were taken out in the boom years fall due for repayment.

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But a drop in real estate will no more cause consumer prices to fall than the real estate boom caused them to rise.

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