The FDA is concerned mainly with the healthfulness of what people put in their mouths, and it seems unlikely that either of the new procedures will yield something that is unsafe to eat.

美国食品和药物管理局主要关注人们吃到嘴里的食物是否有益于健康，而这两种新的方式似乎都不大可能产生不安全的食物。

youdao

The study says that small doses of oral sucrose do not reduce the pain which a baby feels when its heel is pricked to yield a blood sample or it has a drip put in to receive antibiotics.

此项研究声称，当给婴儿脚后跟扎针采取血样，或给它打点滴输抗生素时，小剂量的口服蔗糖液不会减轻婴儿所感觉到的疼痛。

youdao

HSBC will also cut the fourth-quarter dividend from 39 cents in 2007 to about 8 cents, and outline dividends for 2008 that will put the shares on a yield about 5.5 per cent.

汇丰还将把其去年第四季度每股派息从2007年的39美分降至约8美分，从2008年的总体派息情况看，该银行股票的股息率约为5.5%。

youdao

Just as an aside, the most common reasons for us not knowing the answers to important questions are that the answers are too complicated to yield easy information or that no one has been willing to put in the time and money to do the studies necessary to provide certainty.

CNN: What are the long-term brain effects of Xanax?

Now to put that into context, the equivalent UK bond yield is around 2.2% and Germany's is 1.8%.

BBC: France squeezed by markets

"Now that oil prices have dropped, that may put pressure on companies to issue with a higher yield, " Mr. Wolman said.

WSJ: Investors Snap Up Eastern Europe Debt