Most press reports focused either on the Fed's downgrade of the near-term outlook or on its adoption of a long-run 2 percent inflation target.

许多媒体集中报道美联储下调了对短期前景的预期，或者是其通过一项为2%的长期通胀目标。

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A bus consists of a single, long cable that computers connect to along its run.

总线拓扑结构则是由唯一一根长电缆组成，计算机沿着电缆排布。

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This publication has argued consistently that while America needs to address its medium- and long-run fiscal challenges, immediate austerity would be a mistake.

本报一直强调，美国固然要应对自身中期和长期的经济挑战，但做出迅速节制消费的决定会是一个错误。

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The night before, Valdespin hit a long home run and took a long time admiring its trajectory.

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Recognizing the need to pursue growth-oriented policies that support demand and recovery, the United States will calibrate the pace of its fiscal consolidation by ensuring that its public finances are placed on a sustainable long-run path so that a sharp fiscal contraction in 2013 is avoided.

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In the short term, the stock market behaves like a voting machine, but in the long term it acts like a weighing machine (i.e. its true value will in the long run be reflected in its stock price).

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