But the news was overshadowed by the Federal Reserve's glum assessment that the unemployment rate would remain high for longer than it had predicted, dropping to only about 9% by the end of 2011.

对于这个消息而言，乌云压顶的是联邦储备悲戚的评估，评估称美国的高失业率将比预期持续时间更长，并在2011年跌到9%。

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GDP grew by 0.3%, rather than the initial glum estimate of 0.1%.

GDP增长了0.3%，比最初预计的0.1%要高。

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Within a matter of a few weeks he will (almost certainly) be replaced as prime minister by Gordon Brown, the permanently glum-looking finance minister.

再不超过数周的时间内，他的职位将（几乎可以肯定）被戈登布朗，永远都是怒容的财政大臣所代替。

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Chief among them is, yes, you guessed it, Judge Dredd, who was played by a glum Sylvester Stallone in the fairly dreadful 1995 film "Judge Dredd, " and who is played this time around by Karl Urban.

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The setting is a hamlet in the American countryside, ringed by crackling woods and inhabited by a community so glum that its leader is played by William Hurt.

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