1: But many American malls had run into trouble before the recession started, and the country’s nascent recovery is not likely to revive them. America’s retail sector is probably overbuilt; in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the National Association of Realtors, its vacancy rate was 16.9%. 2: Malls are vulnerable to systemic shocks; if an “anchor” stores closes, or if vacancies linger, other vendors quickly suffer. 3: And many of the malls that were built in the heyday of the genre are starting to look shopsoiled. 4: The new fashion is for mixed-use developments, or the outdoor malls that are designed to look like a friendly downtown shopping district. 5: In some cities, people are returning to actual downtown shopping districts, as new urbanists always dreamed they would.

1:但是许多美国人开办的购物中心在经济衰退期来临前就已陷入困境，而美国新生的复苏势头不太可能让他们得到复苏。美国的零售业很可能建设过度了，根据美国房产经纪人协会的统计，2011年第四季度的房屋空置率为16.9%。2:购物中心容易遭受系统冲击带来的影响，如果某家“锚”店停业了，或者房屋持续空置，其余的商家也很快遭殃。3:还有很多类似在繁荣时期建立起来的购物中心开始变得陈旧起来。4:新的时尚是提倡“多用途混合式发展”的建筑群，即户外购物中心要建得像个市中心的购物区。5:在一些城市里，人们回归故态，爱去真正的市中心购物区，这可是新生代城市规划家梦寐以求的事。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-"拯救"大型购物中心

1:Tough times do not suddenly prompt everyone to start a business.2:The vast majority of people who reach working age during a downturn still look for a job.3:But research also suggests that recessions have lasting effects on how executives manage businesses.4:John Graham of Duke University and Krishnamoorthy Narasimhan of PIMCO, a bond manager, have found that chief executives who lived through the Depression tended to run companies with lower debt levels (leverage then went up when these Depression-era bosses retired).5:In a new study, Antoinette Schoar and Luo Zuo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology show that companies run many years later by people who cut their teeth during bleak times, when money was tight and customers harder to find, are systematically different from those run by managers whose formative experiences date back to expansionary times, when credit and optimism were in ample supply.

1:艰难的日子并非突然促使每个人去创业。2:在衰退时期，绝大多数处于工作年龄的人仍然会去寻找工作。3:但是有研究表明，衰退对管理层管理企业的方式有着持续的影响。4:杜克大学的约翰葛拉汉和太平洋投资管理公司（PIMCO）的债券经理Krishnamoorthy Narasimhan发现萧条期间的首席执行官倾向于以更低的债务水平运营公司（在大萧条时代的老板退休以后，公司的财务杠杆将会上升）。5:在一项新研究中，麻省理工学院（MIT）的安托瓦内特肖尔和佐罗（ Luo Zuo）发现，那些曾在黑暗时期（银根紧缩，客户难寻）创业的企业家管理多年的公司，与仅经历扩张时期（信贷充足，且对未来持乐观态度）的企业家的公司有系统性的差别。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-衰退与创业 Downturn, Start up

1: MORMONS are outing themselves. 2: In 2010 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a multi-million-dollar campaign to counter “misconceptions” about the religion, and last October it was vastly expanded. 3: Billboards have now gone up in a dozen American cities, featuring real members. “I’m a Mormon,” say lawyers, scientists and surfers, smilingly directing viewers to the church website. 4: There the curious can chat with a missionary, or browse some 80,000 profiles to find Mormons who are like them. 5: Over the past year, according to the church, people have initiated about 1m chats via the site, often asking about the Mormon record on gay rights, or other controversial things. 6: And since the launch of the October campaign there have been 30,000 more Mormon profiles to look at.

1:摩门教徒如今开始积极地向外宣扬自己的教派了。2:2010年，耶稣基督末日圣徒教会投资数百万美元举办了一场活动，试图来改变人们对摩门教的一些误解与偏见，这场活动自去年10月份开始可谓开展得如火如荼。3:如今在美国十几个城市里你都可以看到路边的广告牌上印着形形色色的摩门教徒微笑地表示：“我是个摩门教徒。”他们都真实地生活在我们身边，有的人是律师，有的是科学家或冲浪者，观者们还可以从广告牌上了解到教会的网址。4:好奇的群众不仅可以与传教士交谈以解心中疑惑，甚至可以翻阅8万名摩门教徒的个人简介，来了解这些和他们看上去一样的普通人的生活。5:据摩门教会透露，去年通过这个活动，人们大约发起了1百万次聊天，聊天内容通常都是关于摩门教对同性恋者权利的观点，以及其它备受争议的敏感问题。6:此活动自去年10月份以来，人们阅览了超过3万摩门教徒的个人资料。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-接纳摩门教徒,有容乃大

After a while the weather cleared up a little, and the beetle was able to rub the water from his eyes, and look about him.

过了一会天好像晴了一点这样金龟子就能擦擦阻碍视线的雨水往四外看看。

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Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

环顾四周，你们会发现他在与你们的孩子玩耍。

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Her limited marketing was soon completed; and then as usual she began to look about for some of the Trantridge cottagers.

她要买的东西不多，很快就买完了；然后她就像往常一样，开始去寻找从特兰里奇来的几个村民。

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She paused for a moment to look about her on hills and woods she had loved in olden days and still loved.

她在那些曾经热爱而现在也依然喜爱着的山丘和树林间停下来等她。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

You look about as stirred up as a cesspool. S-- You want me out?

你看来像是在污水池中被搅动你要我退出吗？

属类：英汉句库-blog.hjenglish.com-

Mrs. Norris began to look about her and wondered that his falling in love with Julia had come to nothing.

诺利斯太太环顾左右，为他和朱丽叶的恋爱未成感到纳闷。

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There was a look about it which seemed to me to be foreign.

其外观在我看来似乎有些陌生。

属类：英汉句库-www.hjenglish.com-

When I could look about , I could see nothing but distress round us.

我向四周一望，满眼都是痛心的惨状。

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