Lenovo paid generously for its landmark acquisition and is now at the mercy of faltering top-line growth and squeezed profit margins.

当年，联想为其标志性的收购支付了慷慨的代价，而今，它却处于营利增长难以保持、利润率遭到挤压的窘境。

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For many women, the light that goes on illuminates a faltering marriage.

对许多女人来说，觉醒之光照亮了她们摇摇欲坠的婚姻。

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Generating jobs in the US will take more than bailouts of faltering firms, handouts to "green" industries, or stimulus spending.

对于美国来说，为了创造新的就业岗位需要要做的不只是救助濒临倒闭的公司、为“绿色”工业投资，或者刺激经济的支出计划。

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That growth, in turn, is likely to lift more people out of poverty than the West's faltering aid schemes.

反过来，这种增长让更多的人摆脱了贫穷，甚于西方那些犹豫不决的援助计划。

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Faltering real estate investment has hurt related industries such as steel.

房地产投资的步履维艰已经损害了钢铁等相关产业。

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Analysts said this was because demand for the metal was faltering amid concerns about a slowdown in the US housing market.

分析人士表示，这是由于对美国住宅市场减速的担忧，动摇了对铜的需求。

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French consumer spending, the motor of expansion over the past decade, is faltering .

过去十年法国经济增长的动力消费支出正在减弱。

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Already, scores of nations are taking aggressive measures to try to stanch the flood of incoming dollars and shore up faltering industries.

很多国家已经采取挑衅的方式来试图阻止大量涌入的美元，并且支持摇摇欲坠的工业。

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That growth, in turn, is likely to lift morepeople out of poverty than the West's faltering aid schemes.

换个角度来看，这样的增长有可能比西方世界小气的援助计划更能使许多穷人摆脱贫困。

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Rising prices or faltering mines do not equal scarcity.

价格不断上涨或者开采逐渐减少并不等于匮乏。

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The explanation for the faltering economy matters as much as the figures themselves.

经济停滞不前的原因与数字本身一样重要。

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Developers are rushing to build while they try to support faltering prices by delaying completions and creating artificial shortages.

开发商一方面靠推迟完工期限和人为创造不足的方式试图维持多变的价格，另一方面仍在大搞建设。

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The faltering FDP might conceivably be tempted in that direction so as to claw its way back into the Bundestag.

可以想象到的是，摇摇欲坠的自由民主党可能被诱惑进那个方向以便拼命地回到联邦议院。

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Using taxpayer money to save faltering firms is the most direct, but not the only way the executive branch intervenes in economic crises.

利用纳税人的金钱去挽救摇摇欲坠的公司是财政部门抵挡经济危机的最直接、但并非唯一的手段。

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Principals whose schools are still faltering after two years will be fired. Schools still failing after four years will be closed.

两年后仍旧不及格的学校校长将会被解职，四年后还是不及格的话，学校将因此关闭。

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McClatchy, America's third-biggest newspaper publisher, is faltering under heavy debts after buying Knight Ridder in 2006.

美国第三大报纸出版商McClatchy由于在2006年收购了KnightRidder公司而债务缠身，如今也是摇摇欲坠。

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America's faltering steps towards new reactors look sure to be set back, not least because new concerns will mean greater costs.

美国对新的核反应器的生产步伐看起来确实需要减缓，尤其是因为此次新的担心将意味着更多的成本投入。

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The manufacturing sector is suffering from weakness at home and from faltering growth in key markets overseas.

美国国内疲软及海外关键市场增长不稳，都影响到制造业。

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America and Europe cannot count on exports to make up for faltering domestic demand, because the crisis has spread to emerging markets.

美国和欧洲不能指望出口来弥补萎靡的国内需求，因为这场危机已经蔓延至新兴市场国家。

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The US economic recovery is faltering ; growth in the second quarter was revised down to 1. 6 per cent.

美国经济复苏形势不稳；第二季度经济增速下修至1.

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The US economy may be faltering , but many big names in American manufacturing are going from strength to strength.

美国经济或许欲振乏力，但美国许多制造业巨擘却是欣欣向荣。

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AMERICAN labour markets are faltering , and the script looks distressingly familiar.

美国劳动力市场每况愈下，本文看来带给人的也是熟悉的忧虑感。

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The US labour market is faltering again, with new unemployment claims rising last week to their highest level in eight months.

美国劳动力市场再度步履蹒跚，首次申领失业救济人数上周达到了八个月以来的最高水平。

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The US seems to prefer an obedient one-party state to a difficult, faltering , but more democratic partner in Asia.

美国似乎更愿意在亚洲有一个惟命是从的一党制国家，也不要一个顽固，废话多多，不过更加民主的同盟国。

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The American consumer is faltering , British shoppers are heavily in debt and anxious Germans are unlikely to take up the slack.

美国消费者蹒跚不前，英国人资不抵债，而且看来焦虑的德国人也不打算抗下这副担子。

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The United States had put pressure on Saudi to deliver a credible deal to cap crude prices and underpin faltering economic growth.

美国一直不断给沙特施压，要求拿出可靠的措施来遏制原油价格并支撑脆弱的经济增长。

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But Moses said to the Lord, "If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips? "

摩西在耶和华面前说：“以色列人尚且不听我的话，法老怎肯听我这拙口笨舌的人呢？”

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So far, faltering demand has outweighed feeble supply, keeping the price near $70 a barrel.

目前看来，石油需求减少程度超过供给疲软的事实使油价维持在每桶$70左右。

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There is no evidence, as yet, that the Chinese economy is faltering .

目前为止，还没有证据表明中国的经济遭遇困境。

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That would not just be a matter of social justice; it could also slow Italy's already-faltering growth.

那样的话就不只是一个社会公正的问题了，可能还会令意大利早已步履蹒跚的经济增长更加艰难。

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