"Though the world’s living standards have risen slightly since last year, the gap between cities at the top and the bottom of the table is still large," said Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer

Mercer公司的高级研究员斯莱金·帕拉卡特迪尔说:"尽管世界各个城市的生活水平较去年稍有提高，但是名列前茅的城市和排名最后的那些城市之间的差距还是很大。

When all was agreed, the case of the journeyman came up, and the mercer begged very hard for him

把一切事情谈妥的时候，就谈到那个伙计，绸缎商尽力地替他求情。

The mercer indeed made a long harangue of the great loss they have daily by the lifters and thieves

绸缎商的确滔滔不绝地说了一大篇关于扒手和小偷天天偷窃他们从而造成巨大损失的事。

The mercer proposed to have a meeting with me myself

绸缎商提议和我自己会一下面。

The process was discovered by John Mercer in 1850 when he noticed that cotton undergoes a general swelling and shrinking when it is treated with caustic soda solution.

该工艺是杰恩·默瑟在1850年发明的,他发现棉经过苛性钠处理后,会有膨胀和收缩现象。

mercer said the continued appreciation of the euro against the U.S. dollar could eventually force companies to move employees and reorganize

美世人力资源顾问有限公司表示，欧元对美元的持续升值最终会迫使许多公司转移员工并重新改组。

"The euro appreciated more than 11 percent in the last six months," said Marie-Laurence Sepede, senior researcher at Mercer

美世人力资源顾问有限公司的高级研究员玛丽·劳伦斯·西皮德说:“在过去的六个月里，欧元上涨了超过11个百分点。

The mercer ’s journeyman came rushing upon me with such fury as very much frighted me

那个绸缎商的伙计气势汹汹地向我冲来，把我吓了一大跳。

It seems it was a mercer ’s shop that had been rifled

这好像是一家绸缎店被他们抢了。

Swiss cities dominated the list of 215 centers ranked according to quality of life, with Geneva tying Sydney for fourth place and Bern finishing 10th, in the annual survey by human resources consultancy William M. Mercer

这项年度调查根据各个城市的生活质量对215个城市进行了排名，其中瑞士的城市在"最适宜居住的城市"排名榜上占据了大多数席位,悉尼和日内瓦并列第四，波恩排在第十位。

Some Properties of Support Vector Machines Mercer ’s Nuclear

支持向量机Mercer核的若干性质

||1:Ms. Stevens told VOA’s Phil Mercer that this telephone system will be one way to break the isolation of deaf-blindness.||2:She adds that with future developments, the phone system might be able to give deaf-blind people more job opportunities.||3:Not being able to communicate in the office or on the telephone is a major employment barrier for people who are deaf-blind said Ms. Stevens.

||1:史蒂文斯女士对美国之音的菲尔·默塞表示，这种电话系统将能打破聋盲的隔离状态。||2:她补充说，随着未来的发展，这种电话系统可能会给聋盲人士提供更多就业机会。||3:史蒂文斯女士表示，无法在办公室交流或通过电话交流是聋盲人士的主要就业障碍。

"Get rid of the gearbox, and now you don’t have to change the oil, " says GE engineer Gary Mercer .

“省去了变速箱，也就意味着不需要更换机油了，”通用电气公司的工程师加里·默瑟介绍说。

"It’s a big opportunity, " says John Drzik, president of Mercer Oliver Wyman.

“这是一个重大机遇，”德理表示。

Five of its top ten cities for 2005 were also in Mercer ’s top ten.

2005它列出的前十名城市有五个也排在了Mercer的十大里。

A big expansion of Mercer Oliver Wyman’s China-related resources is likely.

MercerOliverWyman的中国相关资源可能会大举扩张。

Don Mercer , Orica chairman, said the offer "significantly undervalues" a company that was not up for sale.

Orica董事长当•默瑟（DonMercer）表示，该报价“严重低估”了这家未打算出售的公司的价值。

Still, Mercer acknowledges that cities with a high quality of life are not necessarily the most exciting.

但美世也承认，生活质量的高的城市未必就是最激动人心的城市。

"This is a most immoral use of young children, " said Patrick Mercer , a conservative MP in the UK.

对此，英国保守党议员帕特里克·默瑟表示：“这是对孩子最丧尽天良的利用。”

Another trend is for publicly listed firms to copy private equity’s pay structure, to avoid losing the best people, according to Mercer .

根据Mercer的调查，一些上市公司倾向于复制私人股本公司的薪酬结构以避免最优秀人才的流失。

Last year Angola’s capital was the most expensive city in the world, according to Mercer , a New York-based consultancy.

根据以纽约为基地的咨询机构Mercer的说法，去年，安哥拉的首都是世界上最贵的城市。

European cities continued to dominate the top 25 cities in the survey, Mercer said, while Canadian cities also had a strong showing.

美世公司称，欧洲城市仍占据榜单前25位，加拿大城市也有不俗表现。

Mercer , the consultancy, found the median active manager generated excess returns of 1. 4 per cent last year, but zero over three years.

美世投资咨询公司（Mercer）发现，去年，中值积极型经理共创造了1.4%的超额回报率，但三年期投资的超额收益率则为零。

Mercer , the consultancy, forecast last week that Indian salaries would rise by 15 per cent a year until 2011 amid skills shortages.

美世咨询公司（Mercer）两周前预测，由于高技能员工短缺，到2011年以前，印度的工资会以每年15%的速度上涨。

A new survey from human-resources consultants Mercer LLC puts the state of affairs bluntly:

美世咨询公司人力资源顾问做了一项最新调查，将事态大致总结为：

Dr. Mercer ’s study joins a small but growing body of science about toning shoes, much of which does not support the makers’ claims.

莫瑟博士的研究使他成为反对女性鞋生厂商广告所言的日益庞大的科学研究群体中的一员。

Mercer calls this "free cold" and says it could be used as a cheap and green way to replace refrigeration units and air conditioning.

默瑟把这叫做“免费制冷”，还说它可用来取代冷藏机组和空调设备，既便宜又环保。

Mercer says a lack of available cooling water could cripple such schemes.

默瑟说，缺少可用的冷却水使得这项方案无从谈起。

Mercer says this boosts the efficiency of the CHP unit to over 70%.

默瑟说，这种做法可以使热电联产的效率提高超过70%。

Mercer : And the Governour? He’s been asking questions about the heart.

那治安官呢？他一直都在打听那心脏的事。

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