This will cause further belt-tightening in the public services.

这将导致进一步削减公共服务开支。

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Most of us have survived a recession, so we're familiar with the belt-tightening strategies needed to survive a slump.

我们大多数人都挺过了经济衰退，所以我们都熟悉要在经济衰退中存活需要勒紧裤腰带的策略。

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Such belt-tightening had proved necessary even in the months before the rescue.

这样的收紧裤腰带过日子即便在救助后的几个月也被证明是必须的。

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Well after that, the bond price went up because people saw that as a sign that the company was tightening its belt and doing things right to have money to pay off the bondholders; so it was self-interested, I suppose--maybe you can ask him about this.

在这之后,债券的价格升高了,因为人们认为降低红利是一个信号,说明公司开始紧缩开支走向正轨,并且去偿付债券持有人,莱德利夫通过这种做法达到利己的目的,我想你们可以就此事向莱德利夫提问

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