The first-class enterprise sells brand, second-class enterprise sells techniques, third-class enterprise sells products, enterprise sells fourth-rate coolie.

一流企业卖品牌，二流企业卖技术，三流的企业卖产品，四流企业卖苦力。

JAPAN's economy probably shrank by over 10% (at an annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2008.

2008年第四季度，日本经济大概收缩了10%以上(按年率计算)。

New, positive retail data this morning inspired Macroeconomic Advisers to push its forecast for fourth quarter growth up to a 3.1% annual rate.

最新消息，今早零售数据可观，宏观咨询师为之一振将第四季度平均增长率预期推高为3.1%。

The resulting rate of escalation would place the third attack approximately 2 months (66 days) after the second, with the fourth an estimated 52 days after that.

逐步上升的发生概率将大致得出第三次袭击会在第二次袭击的2个月（66天）后发生，而约52天后会发动第四次袭击。

Corporate America has been raking in massive profits – they flooded in at a record $1.68 trillion annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2010 – with unemployment near 9%.

在失业率接近9%的情况下，美国企业界已实现大量利润——2010年四季度的年化利润额达到创纪录的1.68万亿美元。

Growth in the fourth quarter of 2010 was over 6% at an annual rate (though unemployment is still 14%).

在2010年，第四季度增长超过了6%(虽然失业率仍然处于14%的高位)。

"Many were expecting a strong fourth quarter but not a doubling of rate levels in a matter of weeks," said Mr Gaylard.

“许多人当初确实预计第四季度会比较红火，但没有料到运费水平会在几周内翻倍，”盖拉德表示。

For sheer awfulness nothing can touch Ireland, where prices dropped by 10.8% in the fourth quarter and the rate of decline increased.

不过要论悲惨，谁都比不过爱尔兰，该国房价在第四季度下跌了10.8%，而且还在加速。

At the same time, unemployment will stay high, with the rate averaging 9.3 percent in the first quarter of this year and inching slightly lower to 9 percent in the fourth.

同时，失业率仍将居高不下，今年第一季度失业率平均将达到9.3%，到第四季度将稍稍回落到9%。

It was the fourth consecutive month that the jobless rate has fallen. It is now the lowest since March, before Sars hit the city.

失业率已连续四个月下降，是本年三月沙士爆发以来最低水平。

The mortgage delinquency rate of 5.82% was the highest since 1985 and up from the 4.95% seen in the fourth quarter of 2006.

另外，5.82%的还款拖欠率高于2006年同期的4.95%，达到自1985年以来的峰值。

At this rate, the iPad is poised to become the fourth largest consumer electronics category, passing up gaming hardware and the cellphone.

按照这一速度，iPad正在超过游戏机和手机，将随时成为全球第四大类家用电子产品。

But last year growth slipped to 9%, the lowest rate in seven years, falling in the fourth quarter to just 6.8%.

但去年，增长下滑到9%，这是7年以来最低的增长率，第四季度的增长仅为6.8%。

They have stabilised since the nadir of the fourth quarter of 2008 and the run rate is about 80% of the average over the past decade, according to Dealogic, a financial-analysis firm.

根据Dealogic -一家金融分析公司的数据，并购数量在经历08年四季度的最低点后一路企稳，目前大概是过去10年平均水平的80%。

In the year to the fourth quarter of 2006, the price index compiled by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), a regulator, rose by 5.9%, the lowest annual rate for seven years.

2006年第四季度，联邦住房企业监管办公室(Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, OFHEO)编制的房价指数较上年同期增长5.9%，创下七年来最小增幅。

Output grew at an annualised rate of 5.7% in the fourth quarter of.

09年第四季度按年计算产量增长5.7%的主要原因是公司重建了其股票。

Economists at Barclays Capital calculate that global GDP fell at a 5.9% annual rate in the first quarter, after a similar decline in the fourth quarter of 2008.

据Barclays Capital经济学家计算，今年第一季度全球GD P折合年率下降5.9%，与2008年第四季度降幅差不多。

Only Slovakia has Baltic-style growth (an annual rate of 9.6% in the fourth quarter of 2006, with industrial production up by 17.4% year-on-year in January).

只有斯洛文尼亚具有波罗的海式的增长（2006年第四季度GDP平均增长率为9.6%，工业产值一月份同比增长17.4%）。

The unemployment rate, meanwhile, edged lower, to 8.8%, its fourth straight drop.

同时失业率略微下降，达到了8.8%，这已经是第四次下降了。

The average of the 51 forecasts was fourth-quarter growth at a meager 0.7% rate, so slow that it will push the unemployment rate higher.

51位经济学家对第四季度经济增幅的平均预测值仅为0.7%，如此之低的增幅可能会进一步推高失业率。

Long before it was confirmed on February 28th, the downward revision of fourth-quarter GDP growth, to 2.2% at an annual rate, was expected.

很久之前就有预计，美国第四季度GDP增长将向下修正到年增长率2.2%，这在2月28日已得到证实。

Furthermore, the state has the fourth lowest rate of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion.

更重要的是，这个州来自化石燃料燃烧的CO2排放量是最少的四个州之一。