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基本解釋

The government's budget surplus, before debt payments, beat its first-half target this year.
政府的財(cái)政收入在還貸前呈現(xiàn)盈餘，超過了今年上半年的計(jì)劃。
Industrial &Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world’s largest lender by market value, last month posted a 27 percent gain in first-half profit.
世界上市值最大的商業(yè)銀行——工商銀行——在上個(gè)月發(fā)佈了財(cái)報(bào)，財(cái)報(bào)顯示工行在今年上半年的盈利增長了27%。

Helen was their first child. Until she was a year-and-one-half old, Helen Keller was just like any other child.
In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.
自二十世紀(jì)下半葉,直至現(xiàn)今二十一世紀(jì),作家都在努力思考在現(xiàn)代主義影響,深遠(yuǎn)的這個(gè)時(shí)期裡該怎樣進(jìn)行文躰上的創(chuàng)新。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節(jié)選
Just as I foreshadowed, if you look at the difference between the first and third quartile in the bond market -these are active returns over a ten-year period again ending June 30,2005 -and the fixed income market, the difference between first and third quartile is a half a percent per annum.
如我之前所示,如果觀察,債券市場中的第一和第三個(gè)四分位數(shù),四分位數(shù)即統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)中,把所有數(shù)值由小到大排列竝分成四等份三個(gè)分割點(diǎn)位置分別就是三個(gè)四分位數(shù) 考慮十年期的主動型的收益,截止於2005年6月30日,在債券這個(gè)固定收益市場,第一和第三個(gè)四分位數(shù),每年衹差0.5%
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節(jié)選

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