1: Will it do so again this year, possibly dooming Mr Obama’s re-election? 2: Two factors explain the economy’s previous false starts. 3: First, banks, households and governments are paring their debts. 4: That “deleveraging” has further to go, but seems to have slowed as rock-bottom interest rates coax consumers to indulge some of their pent-up demand for homes and cars. State and local government lay-offs have also slowed. 5: Meanwhile firms that were able to meet increased demand by boosting the productivity of their existing workforce no longer can. 6: Productivity growth, which topped 6% in the wake of the recession, slowed to just 0.5% in the fourth quarter (from a year earlier). 7: In December employers reported total job vacancies of 3.4m, close to its highest since 2008.

1:今年是否还会如此？如果状况再次发生，恐怕奥巴马的连任竞选将面临破产。2:两个原因可解释之前美国经济错误的着手点。3:银行，居民，和政府都在逐步清还债务。4:尽管降低债务杠杆还有很长的路要走，但至少借款已经减缓，与此同时，低至谷底的银行利率也诱惑消费者暂时满足下他们对住房及汽车压抑已久的购买欲。5:此外，之前，工厂可以通过提高已有劳动力的生产效率满足日益增加的需求，但现在，这种方法行不通了。6:即使生产效率一度在经济衰退后以6%的速度增长，去年第四季度也降低到了0.5%。7:去年十二月，雇主反馈职位空缺总量达到三百四十万，接近2008年以来的最高值。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-两个半场的竞赛

1:Thompson felt betrayed by America’s rejection of these ideals in favour of alliances with anti-communist forces, however corrupt and undemocratic.2:Joshua Kurlantzick, now at the Council on Foreign Relations, portrays him as on the losing side in a battle in post-war Washington, as McCarthyite frenzy turned American foreign policy into a “with-us-or-against-us” crusade against communism.3:As a result, in Indochina, and in Thailand itself, America usually found it was on the side of the bad guys.4:Complex nations were grotesquely simplified for the voters back home and the boys sent to fight abroad.5:President Kennedy deliberately mispronounced Laos as “Lay-os”, lest Americans think he wanted to go to war with a small bug.

1:美国反对这些理想、支持拥有反共产主义武装力量的联盟，不论这些武装力量何其腐败和不民主，汤普森都感到美国的行为辜负了他。2:如今身处对外关系委员会的乔舒亚?科兰滋克将他描述为在战后华盛顿的一场斗争中失利的一方，因为麦卡锡主义者的狂怒令美国的外交政策转变为讨伐共产主义的“不支持我们，即与我们为敌”的模式。3:因此，在印度支那及泰国，美国通常会发现自己和坏人一伙。4:荒诞可笑的是，对国内的选民和被派到国外的士兵来说，这些复杂的国家被简化了。5:肯尼迪总统故意将“老挝”误读为“Lay-os”，以免美国人认为他想与一个星斗小国开战。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-"吉姆?汤普森"一个魅力男的觉醒

1: He never dreamed of giving up carpet tiles. 2: Their beauty and variety delighted him, just as Nature’s did. 3: In his office in LaGrange they were laid out like abstract art on tables, while hanks of yarn hung on the walls. 4: His company introduced Cool Carpet?, which had made no contribution to global warming all along the supply chain, and multicoloured FLOR for the home, “practical and pretty, too”. 5: He was proudest, though, of Entropy?, a carpet-tile design inspired directly by the forest floor. 6: No two tiles were alike: no two sticks, no two leaves. 7: They could be laid and replaced quite randomly, even used in bits, eliminating waste. 8: And when you lay down on them you might almost be in Mr Anderson’s 86-acre piece of forest near Atlanta, listening to the sparrows in the long-leaf pines, rejoicing in being a non-harming part of the web of life, like him.

1:他从来没有想到要放弃小方地毯。2:它们的美丽和多样性一如自然界的美丽和多样性，都能让他开心不已。3:在他拉格兰奇的办公室里，这些小方地毯就像抽象艺术一样摊开在桌子上，而多绞纱线则挂在墙上。4: 他的公司推出了注册酷地毯（Cool Carpet?）为商标的地毯和为家庭推出了“实用而且漂亮”的多色彩的弗洛尔（FLOR）地毯。生产这种酷地毯（Cool Carpet?）的一系列的供应链上对全球气候变暖都不会起作用。 5:但是，他最值得骄傲的是注册了熵（Entropy）为商标的小方地毯。这种小方地毯的设计直接受到森林地面的启发。6:没有两片小方地毯是相似的，因为没有两根枯枝或两片叶子是相似的。7:这些小方地毯可以相当随机地铺设和替换，即使用的很少，也杜绝浪费。8:当你躺在这些小方地毯上时，你或许就像在亚特兰大附近安德森先生的86-英亩森林的一部分，就像他一样倾听着长叶松上的麻雀叽叽喳喳，为成为生物织物的无害部分而尽情高兴。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-地毯哲学家雷·安德森

The proof lay all about her. Congo was a rich country, but its minerals were swapped by local strongmen for weapons, or stripped away by corporations who left the people in poverty.

在露丝的身边，证据俯拾皆是。刚果富裕过，但是强壮的当地人用她的矿藏交换武器，各大公司也不遗余力地刮着地皮，老百姓只落得个穷困潦倒。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-在刚果行医的女医生Lyn Lusi

In 2007, Swedish researchers claimed the city lay on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, which was submerged in the Bronze Age.

2007年，瑞典科学家声称亚特兰蒂斯位于北海的DoggerBank之上，这片沙洲于青铜器时代被淹没。

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One day in 2007, Dr. Giulio Tononi lay on a hospital stretcher as an anesthesiologist prepared him for surgery.

2007年的一天，杰里奥·托诺博士（Dr.GiulioTononi），医院的麻醉师正帮他接下去的手术做准备。

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Dick climbed into the only seat. Jeana lay on the floor.

Dick爬到了那唯一的座位上，Jeana躺在地板上。

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The soldier immediately cut off her head, and there she lay on the ground.

兵士一下子就把她的头砍掉了。

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UN officials nevertheless presented the baby and her parents with a small cake as she lay on her mother’s chest wearing a knitted red hat.

不顾那些舆论，联合国官员把一块小蛋糕送给了这位小宝贝，她戴着红色针织帽，依偎在妈妈的胸襟里。

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Lay on your side with your partner facing you, try pulling one leg up to allow room for your partner.

侧卧着让你的伴侣面对着你，抬高一只腿脚，留给伴侣一些空间。

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She seemed to be alive, as she lay on the stretcher, but she had no pulse, nor was she breathing.

当她躺在担架上时，她好像活了过来，但没有脉搏，也没有呼吸。

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When she arrived at Wellesley in 1913, Ms. Pakula writes, Soong Mei-ling could lay on a "Scarlett O’Hara accent" she’d picked up in Georgia.

当她于1913年进入Wellesley时，Pakula女士写道，宋美龄可以说一口在乔治亚州学会的“ScarlettO’Hara（Gonewiththewind女主角）口音”。

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When my hand lay on her calf, I felt the constant twitching play of muscles.

当我的手放在她的小腿上时，我感觉到肌肉不断地在抽搐。

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When we’ve tried to lay on something before it has backfired.

当我们试图突出某些东西的时候，结果却适得其反。

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Candidates lay on food and entertainment to try to lure supporters to the venue.

候选人用好吃好玩的吸引支持者到自己的会场前。

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Memory is the brush which can best lay on the true poetic colour.

回忆是支画笔，能最好地涂抹出真实的诗歌的色彩。

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Using sheets of paper taped together measuring the length of your child have them lay on them and trace the outline of their body.

将纸张粘在一起，让你的孩子躺在上面给他量身高，并勾画出他们身体的轮廓。

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Results: In the middle of legs, the peroneal vessels lay on the medial surface of fibula and posterolateral of tibia.

结果：腓血管行至小腿中部时，位于腓骨内侧面、胫骨的后外侧；

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She just lay on that bed, propped on pillows, rather indifferently allowing people to bring her massive bouquets of flowers.

她静静的躺在那张床上，靠在枕头上，对人们给她带来大束鲜花置若罔闻。

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Shandy always won, signalling her victory with a series of licks to Jimmy’s face as she lay on top of him, panting.

她趴在吉米身上，晃动着尾巴，舔着吉米的脸以炫耀自己的胜利。

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She still remembered the cool breezes that caressed her skin as she lay on the gritty sand.

她仍记得慵懒地躺在沙滩上，任习习凉风亲吻自己的肌肤。

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The key is knowing when to lay on the aggression, selectively, from the start, she said.

她说关键是要在一个人的早期就培养并形成这种争强好胜，懂得选择的习惯。

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She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling.

她仰卧着凝视天花板。

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Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood.

拉尔夫把眼镜片前前后后，上下左右地移来移去，夕阳的一道亮闪闪的白光落到一块烂木头上。

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Mrs. Reed’s hand still lay on her work inactive; her eyes of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine.

里德太太的手还一动不动地搁在她的活计上；她那冰冷的眼睛还冷冷地盯着我。

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Ronnie lay on his back, kicking his legs in pain while his hands covered his eyes.

罗尼躺在地上，双手捂着眼，两腿痛苦地抽搐着。

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Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door.

每天早上我都趴在前门厅的地板上，看着她家的门。

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Shandy lay on her side, one eye looking at him. She didn’t seem convinced.

姗蒂侧躺着，用一只眼睛看着他，她好像听不懂他的话。

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San Sebastian is a coastal town where the best thing to do is lay on the beach and wait for the next scrumptious meal.

圣·塞巴斯蒂安是一个沿海城市，在这里你要做的事情是躺在沙滩上等待下一顿美味的进餐时间的到来。

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Dozens of bodies wrapped in white cotton sheets lay on the pavement outside the club as fire crews moved in.

数十具尸体被白色棉布包裹着，躺在俱乐部外的路面上，消防队员则进入（灭火）。

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