With inflation outstripping the 2.25 percent return on one-year deposits, savers are losing spending power.

由于通胀率超过了一年期存款2.25%的收益回报，储户们正在失去消费能力。

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Take this example: you put money into a saving account which gives you a poor return rate but you do so because you are "scared" of losing your money.

举个列子来说：你把钱放进了回报率很低的储蓄账户，因为你害怕损失钱财。

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Mr Goolsbee cited a desire to return to his Chicago home and to avoid losing his tenured professorship at the University of Chicago as the main reason for his departure.

古斯比声明辞职的原因是因为想回到芝加哥老家去，而且想保住他芝加哥大学终身教授的位置。

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It did say,however, that any state wishing to return to the Union could do so without losing any of its constitutional rights.

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On May 2nd the News of the World, a British Sunday tabloid, published an account of a sting operation in which John Higgins, the world's top-ranked snooker player, and his agent Patrick Mooney, appeared to agree to accept bribes in return for losing specific frames in future contests.

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All three had concerns that the space agency science programs were losing out in the push to return humans to the moon.

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Renault posted a 15% fall in net profit and said it expects new vehicles and fewer sales incentives would return its money-losing automotive operations to profit this year.

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