On a financial level, the poor and middle class need to rely more credit to attain an adequate standard of living, which ultimately makes them poorer.

从金融层面来说，贫穷和中产阶级人群依赖更多的信贷来获得一种足够标准的生活，这最终会使他们更加贫穷。

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The cons are poor performance next to erb, an early stage project and the fact that it's not a Rails standard.

与ERb相比性能稍逊，2)项目还处于早期状态，以及3)它不是Rails的标准之一。

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They will be received in the higher dimensions with great love and understanding, and for their part it is something of a release from what is often a very poor standard of living.

他们将在更高的维度中被伟大的爱和理解所接纳，并且对他们来说经常是从一种非常贫乏的生活水平中的某种解脱。

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The Standard and Poor's/Case-Shiller Index measures home prices in twenty large American cities.

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So, reporters start calling the other rating agencies-- Standard & Poor's and Moody's and others--and say, are you going to down-rate these guys?

于是记者们开始询问其他的评级机构,像是标准普尔和穆迪,问他们,你们打算给这些公司降级吗

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Those are the two biggest rating agencies in the U.S. today and they're extremely powerful organizations because they --Standard & Poor's also does letter grades, a slightly different system, but almost the same.

如今他们是美国最大的两家评级机构,而且他们是非常权威的组织,标准普尔也进行字母评级,体系上有些区别,但基本相同

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The Standard and Poor's 500 fell two points to 1, 500, trimming its advance for the month to 5.2 percent.

NPR: Stocks Drift Lower, Paring January Gains

The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 15, 000 for the first time early Friday, and the Standard and Poor's 500 index, a broader market measure, broke through 1, 600 for the first time.

NPR: Stocks Surge To New Highs After Hiring Climbs

Financial markets in Europe, the US and the Far East continue to fall after after the credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Greek debt to "junk" status and there are fears that the crisis could spread to other EU economies.

BBC: Miliband slams Cameron 'economic illiteracy'