Proposed legislation affecting bird-keepers has been watered down.
事关养鸟人的立法提案已作了缓和修改。
Furious lobbying seems to have watered down that proposal.
愤怒的游说集团似乎要给建议书掺水。
The English teacher watered down the course for the slow-learning students.
英语老师简化了慢班的课程内容。
Now the euro has been watered down, and I believe that ultimately the Germans will probably leave.
现在欧元下跌了，我就认为最后德国人可能会离开欧盟。
Obama is still far from what we are proposing... The idea that this has been watered down is nonsense.
奥巴马离我们所建议的还差得很远……这已经得到缓和的想法根本不成立。
Unscrupulous producers are suspected of adding it to watered down milk to make it appear more nourishing.
黑心厂家涉嫌将三聚氰胺加入牛奶中以提高牛奶营养指标氮含量。
But it has watered down its proposed code on pay, which will now not be compulsory for big Banks in London.
但金融服务局淡化了已提议的薪酬监管要求，如今并不强制伦敦的大银行执行该规则。
Ratings agencies did not hide their disappointment with the plan, which was watered down at the last minute.
评级机构则毫不掩饰对此项在最后关头被弱化的方案的失望。
Some consider it vague and already watered down by Germany's opposition to some of Mr. Sarkozy's objectives.
有些人认为协议内容含糊不清，并且德国不同意萨尔科齐提出的某些目标，这已经削弱了这份新协议的力度。
My prediction at the time was that the term would become so watered down that it would cease to mean anything.
当时我的预测是，这个术语会淡化，不再代表任何意思。
Don't worry, if you really do have a great idea, it will get watered down over time without any effort from you.
不用担心，如果你确实有一个好的主意，它将随着时间的推移而不用浇水你的任何努力。
This, of course, is no surprise to anyone who drinks tea or coffee-if it looks watered down, it tastes watered down.
对于那些和茶和咖啡的人来说当然不稀奇：如果看起来比较淡，它尝起来就会淡。
UK and France lobby to have safety checks watered down, while Switzerland moves to phase out its nuclear power plants.
随着瑞士决定逐步淘汰其核电站，英国和法国也提议淡化其核安全检查的资讯的透露，欧洲核能的不完善在福岛核危机之后暴露无遗。
Grimm's Tales went through seven editions as the brothers watered down the stories to make them more suitable for children.
最初版本的格林童话经过数个版本的改编，到现在变得更适合讲给孩子们听。
Sarbanes-Oxley is likely to be given a makeover this year, with its notorious section 404 on internal controls watered down.
《萨班斯·奥克斯利法案》(Sarbanes - Oxley act)今年可能会作出重大修改，把关于内部控制臭名昭著的404条款改得宽松一些。
Alas, explains Mark McClellan of the Brookings Institution, the most meaningful proposals have since been watered down or delayed.
布鲁克林斯机构的马克·麦克莱伦解释道，唉，最有意义的提案至此就被冲淡或延迟了。
Pink was once a color associated with masculinity, considered to be a watered down red and held the power associated with that color.
粉红色曾一度被认为是阳刚之色，也就是男性的颜色。人们认为粉红色是淡化了的红色，并与红色一样象征着权利和力量。
These "creative" goods don't represent real creativity, but rather a watered down "acceptable" form of creativity that is mass-produced.
这些“创造性”的产品并非真的意味着创造，它更象批量生产的创造性之“可接受”和注过水的变通样式。
Now that the draft "Basel 3" rules on Banks' funding have also just been watered down, these firms may be able to carry on much as before.
既然《巴塞尔iii银行资金条例草案》刚也被削弱，或许这些企业又能一如既往开展多种经营了。
In Mexico a plan to raise beer taxes from 25% to 28% was watered down by lawmakers on October 20th: taxes will now rise by only one-and-a-half percentage points.
墨西哥曾经希望增收25%到28%的啤酒税，但是这个数字被立法者们压下来了：税收仅仅上升了1.5个百分点。
Fears that the package could be watered down - or that Tremonti may not be around to see them through - contributed to a growing sense of unease among investors.
外界担心赤字削减计划会缩水，或者说Tremonti很难看到这项计划得到通过，投资人正在增长的不安情绪可能促使他下台。
Any genuinely critical comment is likely to make the employee react as my children do, with the result that critical comments are usually watered down in the final version.
任何真正批评性的评语，都可能让员工有我孩子那样的反应，结果是批评性的评语通常都在最终版本中淡化了。
The plans announced this week, which provide for a six-month delay after the imposition of wholesale-price caps before retail-price caps kick in, could yet be watered down.
本周宣布的计划，实行批发价格封顶后六个月才实行零售价格封顶，效力也许不会被削弱。
But this too was watered down in 2005, largely at the insistence of France and Germany, after they themselves faced possible sanctions for breaching the budget-deficit limit.
但是在2005年，主要在法国和德国的坚持下，这个条约限制也被放宽了，因为它们自己面临可能因超过预算赤字限额而受到制裁。
Banks' share prices rose too, although that had as much to do with the news on July 27th that the new Basel 3 rules on the sector's capital and funding would be watered down.
在7月27日，对于银行部门的资本和资金将因为刚刚制定的新的巴塞尔三公约而被缓和，尽管大家对此众说纷纭，但这些银行的股价还是上升了。
It's not even that by 1971, the last year for the original 300 series, the model had been watered down in comparison to the legendary high-performance "letter cars" of 1955-65.
这种感觉甚至都不是因为在原版300系列的最后一年1971年，它与1955 - 65年的“字母系列车”的传奇式高性能相比，已经是无地自容了。
Then in 1909, the decree was further watered down when an extra clause was added to allow women in trousers on condition they were "on a bicycle or holding it by the handlebars".
后来到1909年，这一法令进一步放松，增添了一个额外条款，女性骑自行车时可以穿裤子。
Undermining that effort, on Thursday American accounting standard-setters watered down a mark-to-market provision that would have forced banks to value their assets at market prices.
破坏这个努力的事件是：周二美国会计标准制定者淡化了一项迫使银行将其资产价值达到市场价格的按市值计价条款。
The legislature, prodded by it’s senior member, Max Howell, who was liberal on education and taxes but close to the utilities, watered down my first request and refused to fund the second.
州议会资深成员马克斯.豪厄尔在教育和税收问题上比较开明，但是对于公用事业则比较保守，我在州议会上的第一个提议就是由于他的鼓动被打了折扣，而且拒绝为第二个提议提供基金。
The mayor introduced a watered-down version of the proposals.
该市长针对这些提议提出了另一较缓和的版本。
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