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The Treasury secretary made no mention of an exit strategy from fiscal and monetary stimulus. Instead, he said we must continue reinforcing recovery until it is self-sustaining and led by private demand and vowed not to put on the brakes too early.

盖特纳没有提及财政和货币政策刺激的退出策略，而是表示，我们必须继续强化复苏态势，直到复苏能够自我维系，并由私人需求带动。他誓言不会过早踩下刹车。

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A record number of firms are declaring bankruptcy, and in the sprawling urban areas encompassing Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the landscape is littered with stalled construction projects as builders run out of cash or put on the brakes as demand for condominiums and office space dries up.

宣布破产的公司数量创下新高。在包括河内和胡志明市在内的大片城市地区，到处都是已经停工的建筑工地，原因可能是建筑商缺少资金，或是对公寓楼和办公楼的需求枯竭让他们踩了急刹车。

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World markets then ran out of steam and started to move sideways in the autumn, as China began, ever so slowly, to put on the brakes, with technical measures such as adjusting the reserves that banks were required to hold.

接着，随着中国采取调整银行储备金率等技术性措施，开始极其缓慢地踩刹车，全球市场后继乏力，于去年秋季开始失去势头。

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Coming at a time when the Chinese authorities have also put on the brakes, this is liable to push the global economy into a slowdown or possibly a double dip.

之后，中国官方也踩住刹车，放缓经济，这就容易使全球经济放缓，或者还有可能遭遇双峰探底（double dip）。

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Teachers must put the brakes on, as it were, when they notice students looking puzzled.

当老师发现学生神色茫然时，就应该在一定程度上放慢速度。

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Put your foot on the brakes, and the car will stop.

把脚踩在煞车上，车子就会停下来了。

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India has no genuinely independent central bank to put on the brakes.

印度没有能踩下刹车的真正意义上的独立央行.

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finding ways to put on the brakes and have better sex. And of course, in Italy where--I mean, Italians always seem to know where to find their pleasure--they've launched an official Slow Sex movement.

当然，在意大利，我是说，意大利人看起来总是知道到哪去找乐子他们已经开展了一场正式的慢速性生活运动。

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I had to put on the brakes sharply to avoid hitting two school children.

我不得不紧急刹车，以免撞倒两名学童。

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We spent hours building go-carts out of scraps of things and ran full speed down the hill, only to later find out that we forgot to put on the brakes.

我们花几小时，用建筑废料制造滑车，从山上全速下滑时，方才发现忘了加刹车。

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She put on the brakes suddenly.

她突然刹住了车。

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or ms. right. no problem making new friends but know when to put on the brakes and leave well enough alone.

结交新朋友没有问题，但你应该知道何时收手，从容离开。

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My neck snapped when I suddenly put on the brakes.

当我突然踩刹车时把脖子折了。

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Working out when inflationary pressure will finally overwhelm the deflationary forces now at work is a critical issue both for policymakers ( who will have to put on the brakes) and investors.

找到通胀压力最终压倒目前发挥作用的通缩力量的时点，对于政策制定者（他们届时必须踩下刹车）和投资者来说都是一个至关重要的问题。

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It is like driving a car, we put on the brakes at once when we meet with danger in going down a steep slope.

象我们坐车子一样，下陡坡遇到危险，马上把车煞住。

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