In Mexico a plan to raise beer taxes from 25% to 28% was watered down by lawmakers on October 20th: taxes will now rise by only one-and-a-half percentage points.

墨西哥曾经希望增收25%到28%的啤酒税，但是这个数字被立法者们压下来了：税收仅仅上升了1.5个百分点。

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The bill was off and on all week with, at week's end, only a watered-down version surviving.

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In the other camp are those expecting the Fed to provide only a watered-down version of quantitative easing.

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But the government programme launched last week offered only vague and watered-down versions of these plans.

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