Interest rates generally have been declining since last spring, despite a few upward blips in recent weeks.

尽管最近几周突然出现了几次短暂回升，利率自去年春季以来总的来说一直呈下降趋势。

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The decision to start raising rates this spring looked premature and may well have been a mistaken gesture to demonstrate the bank’s independence.

春季的提高利率看起来过早而且对显示央行的独立性是个错误的姿态。

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Yet interest rates remain low by historical standards; indeed, they're lower now than they were in the spring of 2009, when those dire warnings began.

然而，利率却维持在历史低位，事实上，现在的利率比那些可怕的警告开始的2009年春天还低。

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The car's styling forgave a multitude of other sins, including a penny-pinched interior, mediocre fuel economy and a rather heavy, trembling, fundamentally unathletic chassis that no amount of spring rates nor summer tires could mediate.

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Prof Ajit Lalvani, director of the Tuberculosis Research Unit at Imperial College London said there is a spring peak in rates of tuberculosis which have been attributed to low levels of vitamin D.

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The spring brought rising subprime delinquency rates and the ensuing failures of subprime lenders.

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