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High interest rates put a curb on spending.

高利率抑制了消费。

Several small businesses consolidated to form a large powerful company.

几家小企业合并成了一家实力雄厚的大型公司。

The brain needs a continuous supply of blood.

大脑需要不断地供血。

Viewed from the top of Mount Tai, the sunrise was indeed a spectacle.

从泰山顶上看去，日出真是个奇观。

Be conscientious and make a good job of publishing.

要认真做好出版工作。

The businessman was sent to prison for trying to corrupt a tax official with money.

那个商人因企图向税务官员行贿而被判入狱。

A small room; a cubbyhole; a small secluded room; a small compartment.

有小房间，小隔间（橱），隐蔽的小房间，等等意思。具体翻译要看上下文而定。

A picture of a cat on a log is a rebus for catalog.

谜画中有一只猫(cat)站在一块头(a log)上, 谜底是catalog(目录)。

A dime is a tenth of a dollar.

一角银币是十分之一美元。

The four-building complex will include a library, a museum, an auditorium and a planetarium.

由四栋房屋所构成的这座综合建筑将包括一个图书馆、一个博物馆、一个礼堂及一个天文馆。

A chair consists of a seat with a back.

椅子是由椅座和椅背构成的。

When a catalytically active enzyme forms a complex with a cofactor a holoenzyme is produced.

酶蛋白和辅助因子两者结合成完整分子时，形成具有活力的全酶。

The statue has a gentleness,an ambience,a wistful elegance.

那尊雕像具有一种柔和、一种独特格调、一种忧郁沉思的雅。

A mole is a blemish on a person's skin.

在人的皮肤上是一个疵点。

I saw a man leveling a gun at a crow.

我看见一个人正用枪瞄准一只乌鸦。

A larva metamorphose into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.

幼虫变为蛹，然後再变成蝴蝶。

It is a legal fiction that a corporation is a person.

把团体法人当作一个人是一种法律上的假设。

An arrow with a four-edged head is shot from a crossbow.

有四面刃头的箭是从石弓发出来的。

A small cyme or a small section of a compound cyme.

小聚伞花序 Cymule 小的聚伞花序或复合聚伞花序的一小部分。

A catalyst is a substance which speeds up a chemical reaction.

催化剂是一种能加速化学反应的物质。