Call your credit card company and ask them for an interest-rate reduction, or shop around for a card with a lower rate.

与你的信用卡公司联系，争取降低利率，或找一张低利率的信用卡。

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Greece won a modest reduction in the interest rate it is paying on its loans, but Ireland received no such concession because it insisted on keeping its low corporate-tax rate.

希腊获准适度调低其贷款的支付利率，但爱尔兰由于坚持要保持较低的企业税率，没有得到贷款支付利率方面的让步。

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With yesterday's 50 basis point interest rate cut, following last week's 75 point emergency reduction, we are certainly off to the monetary races.

在上周紧急降息75个基点之后，昨日美联储又降息50个基点。 这回轮到市场在这场货币纳斯卡赛车中落后了。

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They're not asking for a holiday on interest payments or even an interest-rate reduction like Greece.

WSJ: No Easy Passage for Ireland and Portugal

But even if the latest interest-rate reduction halts the deterioration in the economic outlook, it looks unlikely that it will generate enough momentum to speed the recovery.

ECONOMIST: On the offensive

Following two days of sell-offs in stock markets across the globe--and a week ahead of its Federal Open Market Committee meeting (when the rate cut was expected)-- the Fed slashed short-term interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, its single most dramatic rate reduction since 1984.

FORBES: Confidence Game