The standard rate of income tax was cut to 23p in the pound.

所得税的标准税率削减到了每英镑23便士。

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The fall in the pound will also help.

英镑贬值也会起到支持效果。

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The fall in the pound may have been disconcertingly large but it marks an overdue adjustment after a longperiod in which sterling was overpriced.

英镑贬值的幅度可能是大得令人恐惧,但是这标志着英镑在长期被高估后一个迟来的调整.

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Working in such a laundry was known as the eight-pound livelihood because a person had to lift an iron weighing almost four kilograms all day.

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In English it begins with the late novels of Henry James around 1900, in poetry with Eliot and with Ezra Pound.

在英国现代主义萌芽于1900年左右，体现在亨利·詹姆斯,的后期小说，艾略特和艾兹拉·庞德的诗歌上。

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Compare the footnotes in the Frost poems to the footnotes in The Norton that you find next to Eliot or Pound's poems.

把弗罗斯特的脚注跟诺顿的比较,就是在艾略特和庞德旁边的那个。

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Business leaders are funding a campaign against the tax rate of 50p in the pound.

BBC: Businesses call for 50p top tax rate to be scrapped

He wants to cut the lowest rate of income tax from 20p in the pound to 10p.

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And since 2008 the fall in the pound against emerging-market currencies has given London an extra boost.

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