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The government's budget surplus, before debt payments, beat its first-half target this year.
政府的财政收入在还贷前呈现盈余，超过了今年上半年的计划。
Industrial &Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world’s largest lender by market value, last month posted a 27 percent gain in first-half profit.
世界上市值最大的商业银行——工商银行——在上个月发布了财报，财报显示工行在今年上半年的盈利增长了27%。

Helen was their first child. Until she was a year-and-one-half old, Helen Keller was just like any other child.
In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.
自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。
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Just as I foreshadowed, if you look at the difference between the first and third quartile in the bond market -these are active returns over a ten-year period again ending June 30,2005 -and the fixed income market, the difference between first and third quartile is a half a percent per annum.
如我之前所示,如果观察,债券市场中的第一和第三个四分位数,四分位数即统计学中,把所有数值由小到大排列并分成四等份三个分割点位置分别就是三个四分位数考虑十年期的主动型的收益,截止于2005年6月30日,在债券这个固定收益市场,第一和第三个四分位数,每年只差0.5%
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Chris Bosh crashed to the court clutching his right knee after a first-half collision.
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