AROUND a quarter of the world's population speaks just three languages: Mandarin, English and Spanish.

全球大约有四分之一的人仅说以下这三种语言：汉语，英语和西班牙语。

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Spanish GDP grew by just 0.3% (an annualised rate of 1.2%) in the first quarter, when the euro area as a whole expanded by 0.8%.

第一季度，西班牙GDP增长仅仅0.3%(相当于年化增长率1.2%)，其中欧洲区域总体增长率为0.8%。

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The Spanish bank, which has about two-thirds of its loan book in mortgages, earlier today reported a slump in fourth-quarter profit as revenue from lending plunged.

西班牙国际银行今天早些时候公布，第四季度利润有所下滑，主要是因为借贷收入减少，该银行发放的贷款有三分之二都是抵押贷款。

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The nation's oldest city was founded more than 400 years ago, and its Colonial Spanish Quarter Museum gives visitors the opportunity to see what life was like in the city when it was still an outpost of the Spanish empire.

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To borrow an image from the country's other favorite pastime, over the next quarter century, Spanish soccer transformed from a bull into a matador.

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Although prices have already fallen by 23% from their peak, they remain well above fair value and the dire state of the Spanish economy, where a quarter of the workforce is unemployed, suggests that prices will keep diving.

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