Simply shortening a suit's hems and sleeves can leave the collar too broad, the pockets oversized, the armholes gargantuan, the elbow curves too low and the rear droopy.

仅仅修短衣服的下摆和袖子是远远不够的，领口、口袋、袖孔都还是太大，肘弯处太低，后摆也是耷拉着的。

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The low interest rates had put more money in people's pockets than tax cuts would have.

低息与减税相比，更能够给民众的口袋里增加实惠。

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So, if they are able to disperse and move to several of the southern pockets, this may lead to a low-level insurgency that can last for a while.

因此，如果他们能分散开来，移向南部地区的几个地方，就可能出现低水平的反抗战斗，这可能持续一断时间。

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In reality the central bank will point to recent pockets of positive economic news, already low yields, which would arguably mitigate much of any lead they might take to encourage borrowing and might even spin the positive impact of the U.S. credit-rating downgrade.

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Camera-phones were still a novelty that captured grainy, low-res images, and digital cameras didn't fit in jeans pockets.

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Or to suggest that politicians in Nigeria are held in such low regard that any idea that they enter politics to serve anything other than their own pockets, sounds faintly ludicrous.

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