缓和

The rate cut is at best a temporary palliative. It will not revive the housing market.

降低利率充其量是一个暂时的缓和危机的方法，它不会重新活跃房地产市场。

It is occasionally used as a palliative treatment for symptomatic relief.

有时它被作为减轻症状的缓和治疗方式。

There have been palliative efforts, including a sort of superstitious belief in technology

也有一些缓和状况的办法，包括对科技手段的迷信

Implications for hospice palliative care and future research are recommended.

同时提出对安宁缓和医疗的未来研究这建议。

This provocative thesis may overstate Israel's heft in Washington and understate its fear of Iran's nuclear ambitions. But it is hard to grumble with Mr Parsi's conclusion that detente between America and Iran, of the sort that might have come about in 2003, would in fact make both Israel and the Middle East as a whole very much safer.

这一观点具有很大的争议性，它可能夸大了以色列对于华盛顿的重要性，也低估了以色列对伊朗核问题的忧惧程度，但既然Parsi在书的结尾处指出，美国与伊朗之间的关系如果出现2003年那次可能出现的缓和，事实上对以色列乃至整个中东地区的安全都十分有利，那我们又何苦对他的这一论点斤斤计较呢？！

Keeping the same, two-toned color scheme, and an elegant curvature, Paulin's supercar will be unveiled at the 2009 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

保持不变，两个缓和配色方案，和优雅的曲率，波林的超级跑车将在2009年推出圆石滩竞赛德优雅。

To the extent that his resourcefulness enhances the prospect for perestroika at home and moderation abroad, it deserves a welcome in the West.

就他的才略有助于国内改革的前景以及对外关系的缓和程度而言，他是值得受西方欢迎的。

Confucianism is the center of the traditional civilization of China. It has important affection in regulating people s behavior, conciliating people s psyche, harmonizing the relationship among people and easing up social contradiction and so on. The humanism spirit what s it comprised still possesses pertinacious life and modern significance which also produces great and far-reaching affection to the formation and development of national spirit of China.

儒学是中国传统文化的核心，在规范行为、安抚心灵、协调人际关系、缓和社会矛盾等方面，都发挥过重要的作用，它所蕴含的人文精神仍然具有顽强的生命和现代意义，对中华民族精神的形成和发展也产生了重大而深远地影响。

Though when compared with the record of a year or two before, the overall record of world currency depreciations was more moderate; the American dollar in 1977 was depreciating at an annual rate of 6 percent, the French franc of 8.6 percent, the Japanese yen of 9.1 percent, the Swedish krone of percent, the British pound of 14.5 percent, the Italian lira of 15.7 percent, and the Spanish peseta at an annual rate of 17.5 percent.

尽管与一两年前的情况相比，世界通货贬值的总体状况有所缓和，但1977年的贬值率分别是，美元6%，法国法郎8.6%，日元9.1%，瑞典克朗9.5%，英镑14.5%，意大利里拉15.7%，西班牙比塞塔则达17.5%。至于拉美国家，巴西货币单位1977年贬值30.8%，乌拉圭比索35.5%，智利比索53.9%，阿根廷比索则高达65.7%。

The Central Bank has intervened less to prop up the peso and capital flight is easing.

中央银行已经较少干预市场去支撑比索，而资金外逃的情况也缓和下来了。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。