fall about one's ears

彻底地垮了, 完全毁了

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Nick's born clown, just the sight of him is enough to make you fall about laughing

尼克天生是个丑角,只要看见他就足能使你禁不住大笑起来。

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1: Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, enacted within a month of his taking office in January 2009, amounted to about 4% of America's GDP. 2: In the Depression of the 1930s, the biggest stimulus in any year of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal amounted to only about 1.5% of GDP. 3: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as Mr Obama's bill was formally named, was a tale that grew in the telling. 4: In the months running up to the election in November 2008, the economy entered virtual free-fall. 5: The severity of the downturn surprised the participants, but long before he was elected, Mr Obama knew that he faced a crisis of 1930s proportions.

1: 巴拉克·奥巴马于2009年1月上任后的一个月内通过了7870亿美元的刺激计划，这笔资金约占美国 GDP 的4%。 2: 而20世纪30年代的大萧条时期，在富兰克林·罗斯福的“新政”年间，最大的一笔刺激方案也只占当时 GDP 的约1.5%。 3:奥巴马法案的正式名称为《美国复苏与再投资法案》，它的规模越来越大了。4:在2008年11月大选前的几个月，美国经济几乎直线下滑。5:衰退的严重性让各位候选人感到吃惊。但奥巴马在当选以前很早就意识到了他将面临像20世纪30年代那样严重的危机。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-高飞的承诺 The big promise

1:“Why Capitalism?” by Allan Meltzer, a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is an extended response to some of the calls he has received in recent years.2:The most thought-provoking came from a woman in Germany who, after reading the New York Times, wondered if, only two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was actually witnessing the implosion of the system that brought it down.

1:《为何是资本主义？》的作者Allan Meltzer是匹兹堡的卡耐基·梅隆大学的一名经济学教授，该书主要是对他这几年收到的咨询电话做出的扩展回复。2:最发人深省的电话来自一名德国女士，她在看完纽约时报后，不由深思，当初正是资本主义推倒了柏林墙，如今柏林墙倒塌才20年，她是否就已经在亲临这一体制的逐渐崩溃。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-只为重建信心 For those who have l

1: As with the other rovers, Curiosity's mother ship will rely on heat shields and air-resistance, and then on a parachute, to slow its arrival. 2: But at an altitude of 1.6km a specially designed descent stage bearing the rover will drop away from this vehicle. The descent stage has eight rocket motors on its corners. These will slow its fall to a relatively sedate 0.75 metres a second. 3: When it is about 20 metres above the surface, the rover will be lowered from it on wires and deposited gently onto the Martian landscape. 4: The cables will then be cut with explosives, the descent stage will fly off and crash land elsewhere, and Curiosity will begin its mission.

1:像其它几个漫游者一样，"好奇号"的母船将依靠隔热、耐大气摩擦的防护层，然后通过降落伞减速。2:但在1600米高时，一个特别设计的背负着漫游者的下降台从母船脱落，下降台的四角有8个火箭发动机，这些发动机把速度降到相对缓慢的0.75米/秒。3:离地约20米时，它将绑在线缆上的漫游者放下去，轻轻地在火星着陆。4:之后这些线缆将通过爆破切断，下降台飞走并在其它地方坠毁，"好奇号"开始它的任务。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-微型汽车大的探测器在火星着陆

1:Under the late Steve Jobs Apple paid fanatical attention to detail, so it is remarkable that its maps should have come up so short.2:But polishing its hardware was one thing; the struggle with maps "has been the first really obvious head-butting of the wall," says Carolina Milanesi of Gartner, another research firm.3:Past perfectionism over devices has won it time to improve its maps.4:In a market in which brands can fall fast, that is a rare luxury.

1:已故的史蒂夫?乔布斯执掌苹果时，该公司曾极为注重细节。因此，如今的地图应用竟然出现了这么大的缺陷不免令人吃惊。2:但硬件水平的提高只是一方面；在另一方面，用研究公司 Gartner 的 Carolina Milanesi 的话来说：努力改善地图应用的苹果公司"这次真的明显是在自找苦吃"。3:苹果对于产品的旧式完美主义为它赢得了改善地图应用的时间。4:在竞争激烈、淘汰迅速的市场中，时间正是极为宝贵的。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-智能手机的地图应用 敢问路在何方?

For example, as users fall foul of so-called phishing attacks—giving away sensitive details such as passwords while browsing the internet, or allowing code that corrupts work files to be downloaded—the ability of IT staff to cope with the consequences diminishes as they become increasingly overwhelmed and tired.

例如，用户们遇到的所谓的钓鱼式攻击——在浏览网页的时候会泄露密码等敏感信息，或者那些导致毁坏文件的代码被下载下来——信息技术的工作人们处理这些问题的能力会随着他们增加的重担和持续的疲倦而下降。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-如何用计算机模拟人类错误

Come and join us for the comedy show. You'll definitely fall about over it.

快来和我们一起看这部喜剧吧。你一定会捧腹大笑的。

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Credit Suisse now expects capex in China to fall about 25 per cent, almost double its previous assumption.

瑞士信贷（CreditSuisse）现在预期，中国的资本支出将降低大约25%，降幅几乎比此前的预测大了1倍。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

This autumn, he expects the intake to fall about 15 per cent, before recovering in 2010.

他预测，今年秋季招生数量将减少约15%，到2010年才会回升。KaplanFinancial提供会计培训服务。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-