Average hourly earnings were flat last month, and are up just 1.7% from a year earlier, half the rate at which they were growing before the recession.

平均小时薪金与上月持平，仅比去年同期水平增长了1.7%，这只是衰退前增长率的一半。

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The company plans to reduce debt by the sale of assets such as half of its stake in Lukoil and to let production remain flat at 1.7 million barrels a day for three or four years.

公司计划销售资产来减债，比如卖掉所持有的卢克公司股权的一半，3-4年里保持日产量170万桶不变。

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The ratio between the two was pretty flat for the first half of the 20th century, and then soared in the 1960s and 1970s, as the baby boomers left college (see chart).

两类储户间的比值关系在20世纪上半叶非常平稳，到了60年代和70年代，当婴儿潮时期出生的一代人走出大学时，这个比值开始急剧飙升。

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What we've written is a whole step, so we've got to indicate that this is just a half step away in that fashion, D to E-flat.

而这里写的是一个全音级,所以我们要在这里标出,从D到降E只有半音级

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Ms Estemirova and her two-year-old daughter lived in a half-ruined flat in Grozny.

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Once you plunge in you find sections that alternate between slow streams where you can beach yourself against a flat half-submerged rock, and fast currents of waterslide fun.

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However, O'Gara kicked Ireland into the lead after 10 minutes and the fly-half's flat pass to a charging Andrew Trimble six minutes later helped set up the game's opening try - although it looked a shade forward.

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