The river is silted up and the water flows sluggishly.

河道淤塞， 水流迟滞。

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Wages, a good gauge of Labour demand, are growing sluggishly.

劳动力需求的良好指标——工资增长得相当缓慢。

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For the past few years, the world's production capacity has grown only sluggishly.

过去的几年中，世界的产油能力仅仅是缓慢增长。

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Also, if the earnings drop, they don't want to suddenly do a crash cut in their dividends either, so they're always sluggishly adjusting toward the target payout rate.

同样,如果收益下降,他们不想匆忙的把股利降下来,所以他们总是慢慢的,朝着目标股利发放率靠近

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As a result, real incomes and hence consumer spending have grown more sluggishly in the euro zone.

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By contrast domestic costs have adjusted much more sluggishly in Portugal and Greece, as their trading performance reveals.

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They've performed very, very sluggishly, in fact a steep fall-off from the Internet boom to where we are now.

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