Mr Osborne stuck to his guns about the overall scale and pace of fiscal retrenchment in the four years to 2014-15, the final year of this parliament.

奥斯本先生坚持己见，认为在接下来的四年里(也就是到本届议会的最后一年2014 - 15年的这段时间里)，应当削减英国财政支出的规模，减缓支出的速度。

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So it ought to be possible to test for the presence of a certain antigen on a surface by dragging a suitable antibody over it, and seeing if it gets stuck going fishing, in effect, on a molecular scale.

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On Wednesday the chancellor stuck his head in the sand, afraid to confront the significance of the scale of the issue.

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