On Masonry Structure Safety of Mortar Strength Downgrading

砌筑砂浆强度等级降低后的砌体结构安全性探讨

||1:Standard & Poor’s upped the ante in its legal fight with the American government when it asserted that it is being sued in “retaliation” for exercising its right to “free speech” in downgrading America’s AAA credit rating.||2: S&P made the claim in court papers it filed defending itself against the lawsuit, which alleges that S&P gave sound ratings to bad mortgage products to keep its clients in the banking industry happy.

||1:标准普尔增强了其与美国政府的法律斗争。标普坚持认为在行使其将美国的AAA评级下调的言论自由权后得到了美国政府的报复性起诉。||2:标普在自我辩护的法庭文件中提出这一观点，美国政府起诉其给予不良抵押贷款良好的评级，以此取悦其银行业的客户。

Rating agencies responded by downgrading monolines’ own debt.

评级机构的回应是，对单线保险公司的债务降级。

Also, if you’re really serious about saving money, consider downgrading your package by cutting out pay cable channels.

并且，如果你真的想省钱的话，可以考虑下减少付费频道的订购。

But angry crowds, slighted by the downgrading of the charges, attacked the defence team as itleft court, and bashed cars and people.

但是愤怒的人群，因为罪罚的减轻而感到受到轻视，在辩护律师团离开法庭时攻击了他们，这些人还袭击了汽车和普通民众。

Step four would be the downgrading of the monoline insurers, which do not deserve the AAA rating on which their business depends.

第四步是债券保险公司评级被下调，它们没有资格获得其业务所依赖的AAA等级。

Dump it, or at least cut it back. You can save hundreds of dollars a year by downgrading your cable service.

放弃吧，或者至少不用有线，这样你每年可以节约上百美金续有线服务费。

You can destroy a brand by relentlessly downgrading the product and disappointing expectations, but it takes time.

毫无顾忌地降低产品品质，令消费者大失所望，可能会摧毁一个品牌，但这要经过一段时间。

Given the scale of the US’s public sector deficit, few could argue with the idea that rating agencies may soon have to start downgrading .

考虑到美国公共部门赤字的规模，几乎没人会反驳一点，那就是评级机构可能很快就不得不开始下调美国的信用评级。

Rating agencies have been criticised for not downgrading debt sufficiently in the run-up to the financial crisis.

评级机构被指责在金融危机前期没能充分降低债务评级。

Their criticism is that they are too often behind the curve, downgrading long after actual market prices have highlighted a problem.

评级机构为人所诟病之处，在于其动作往往太慢，在市场实际价格表明存在问题之后很久才下调评级。

Trimming and downgrading travel spending.

企业削减差旅开支数目和降低标准。

The chances of at least one if not more of the ratings agencies downgrading American debt are now quite good.

如果不会有太多评级机构下调美国国债评级的话，已经算是万幸了。

We started downgrading countries such as Greece and Portugal in 2004, at a time when the market valued their bonds on a par with Germany’s.

我们在2004年开始下调希腊和葡萄牙等国的主权评级，当时市场对这些国家债券的估值与德国相当。

First came the downgrading of the US credit rating, in effect the downgrading of a nation.

先是美国信用评级被下调，实际上相当于一个国家被降级。

There is thought to be concern in Washington at the prospect of a close ally downgrading its military capabilities.

有人认为，美国政府对于这位亲密盟友降级了的军事能力表示出极大关注。

This final acknowledgement follows weeks of growing pessimism and represents a significant downgrading of the summit’s original goal.

在悲观情绪滋生了数周后，他们承认了最终的结局，它显然与首脑会议的最初目标相差甚远。

Before downgrading U. S. debt, S. & P. sent a preliminary draft of its press release to the U. S. Treasury.

在对美国债务降级之前，标准普尔将其新闻发布件的初稿寄给美国财政部。

Another Merrill analyst had earlier caused an even bigger quake by downgrading Countrywide, a big mortgage lender.

早些时候，另一位美林分析师降低了一家抵押贷款商Countrywide的评级，引起了股市更大的震动。

downgrading of diplomatic relations

外交关系的降格