Salaries are stagnant or lower, hourly workers are seeing their shifts cut, and about half the people who've been laid off and found new jobs over the past year have had to settle for less pay.

薪水不涨甚至降低，小时工看到他们的工资减少，大约有一半的人在过去的几年中被解雇，勉强接受工资较低的新工作。

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Winter storms cut perhaps half a percentage point off growth from January to March, according to some estimates.

按照某些人的估计，从一月到三月，冬季暴风雪可能将增长率消减了半个百分点。

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Under the stars and with the night colder all the time he ate half of one of the dolphin fillets and one of the flying fish, gutted and with its head cut off.

在星光下，在越来越冷的夜色里，他把一爿鱼肉吃了一半，还吃了一条已经挖去了内脏、切掉了脑袋的飞鱼。

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Oil prices spiked in 2006, when an oil spill in a BP-operated Alaskan field briefly threatened to cut off half of the state's production for months.

WSJ: Drilling Rules Hit Alaska Pipeline

The northern half of the country is largely cut off from the more commercially vibrant south.

ECONOMIST: The problems are the same as ever, and now the shooting too

Australia made the perfect start to the second half, scoring within a minute of kick-off as Elsom cut a lovely line off of Larkham.

BBC: Australia 91-3 Japan