Us firms from General Motors to Goldman Sachs plan to lay off workers by the thousands, but at the Asian units of Western multinationals, job cuts will probably be less severe.

通用汽车和高盛投行等许多美国企业计划大批裁员，而相比之下，西方跨国公司的亚洲分公司的裁员力度可能要小一些。

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The farmers plan to lay the corn fields down to grass.

农场主们打算将玉米田改种牧草。

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Developed countries have begun to lay out a plan for funding technology transfer and adaptation efforts.

而发达国家则开始筹划为技术转移和适应气候变化提供资金的计划。

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He says that in Prague he will lay out a plan to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons.

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Supporters of the plan say that, nevertheless, it will lay the foundation for a new kind of mass transportation in the United States.

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But this year the U.S. government declined to lay out any plan to balance its budget ever again.

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The new Treasury secretary was the man who was supposed to lay out the plan to rescue the banks the next days.

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