The longer-term buying in April was countered with the larger net sale of Y1,470bn in money market instruments – short-dated bills of a year or less – in the sixth successive month of sales.

与今年4月中国购买日本长期国债的做法相对的是，同期中国更大规模地净出售1.470万亿日元的货币市场工具（一年期或期限更短的短期债券），这是中国连续第6个月出售此类资产。

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Geological prediction is divided into long-term forecasting and short-term forecasting, which are the two successive steps in the work of geological prediction.

超前地质预报分为长期和短期两类，它们是超前地质预报工作步骤中的先后两步。

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