Shares in Best Buy are worth barely half what they were a year ago, and the firm has abruptly scaled back its international-expansion plans, offloading its stake in Carphone Warehouse in Britain.

百思买的股价仅仅是一年以前的一半。企业也减少了国际扩张计划，并且减少了英国车载电话仓库的库存。

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Despite the recent gains, average house prices in most countries are barely higher than a year ago.

尽管最近反弹，大多数国家的平均房屋价格几乎不会超过去年。

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Lorne Stockman, the author of the report, said: "a peak in oil demand was barely discussed even a year ago, but now it is a viable idea."

报告作者劳恩·斯道克曼说，石油需求极限一年前还没怎么被提起，但现在这个观点并不算缥缈。

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It was barely a year ago that they were scheduled to perform in an old industrial town.

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But overall, the announcement is the latest ramping up of higher education's MOOC experiment, which launched in earnest barely a year ago as a way to sample elite college courses.

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This has come as a huge relief to chief financial officers, who barely a year ago were having to make do without a fully functioning market for commercial paper (short-term loans to finance operating expenses).

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