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It is also the only thing standing between the United States and its own moment of reckoning, and that is not a good thing.

美元也是对美国犯下的错误进行最终清算的唯一障碍，而这可不是什么好事。

A thief hired a room in a tavern and stayed a while in the hope of stealing something that should enable him to pay his reckoning.

一个小偷在一家旅馆里租了一间房。在那里住了一段时间，希望能够偷点东西搞点钱花花。

If so, the Assads have one choice left, which is how much blood to spill to delay their day of reckoning.

若是这样，阿萨德政府就只剩下一个选择：为了推迟他们的最后审判日，还需要流多少血。

Any of various systems of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined.

任一种用于标识时间的系统，确定了一年的开始、时长和划分

The idea was that instead of trying to predict the future (the principle of Dead Reckoning), why not make the past look like the present?

其中有一个想法是，除了试图预测未来之外（也就是导航预测算法的原理），为什么不可以将过去的情况作为现在来处理呢？

Apparently reckoning he would be unable to beat his Shia rivals, he decided to join them.

很显然，马利基心里盘算着他也许不能打败什叶派对手，索性还是加入其中。

No matter how the reckoning goes, TIME's investigation reveals at least four places where the system broke down.

不管推测的结果如何，时代周刊的调查揭示了至少有四个方面出现了体制的故障。

On this view, this summer's fight over raising the debt ceiling was just a preview of a reckoning to come.

从这一观点来看，今夏关于债务上限的争论只不过是将来报应的预演。

However, the precise measurement is not to rely on the sun, but by a stellar altitude and azimuth for measurement and reckoning.

不过，精确的测量不是靠太阳，而是靠某恒星的高度和方位来进行测量和推算的。

By my reckoning, someone who buys a newspaper a day, a magazine a week and three books a month will break even by the fifth month.

根据我的估计，一天买一份报纸、一周买份杂志、一月买三本书的人，到第五个月就收回了本钱。

You can't help conclude that we're heading for one hell of a day of reckoning with all this.

这不禁让人觉得，到了清算这一切的那天，我们都会一头栽进地狱。

By one dealer's reckoning, fine-violin prices have gone up by an average of nearly 12% a year since 1950.

一位贸易商估计，自1950年后，好的小提琴价格平均每年增幅大约为12%。

And the long-term nature of pensions ensures that their reckoning is delayed.

养老金的长期性确保了它们的惩罚得以推迟。

The reckoning took account of the likely losses from transferring the banks' worst loans at a discount to NAMA, Ireland's "bad bank" .

清算考虑到了当银行坏账以一定的折扣转到爱尔兰的“坏银行”，国家资产管理机构时的可能损失。

Spared western problems like an open system, stupid regulators, and malevolent bankers, China has dodged a reckoning.

由于没有“西方病”，比如开放的体系、愚蠢的监管者和贪婪的银行家，中国躲过一劫。

This was a protracted slog which, by Mr Koo's reckoning, did not finish until 2005.

这是种拖延的做法，Koo先生估计，这个过程指导2005年才结束。

The reckoning that many predicted during the worst of the crisis has, at least, been postponed.

许多人在危机最严重时刻所预言的报应至少已经推迟了。

That firm may be able to evade the law at present, but there will be a day of reckoning sooner or later.

那家公司也许现在能逃脱法网，但迟早有一天要受到清算的。

That reckoning, however, included measures of the dying Labour government adopted by its successor, which bear down on high earners.

然而做出这样的预计，包括从垂死挣扎的工党那里继承来的措施，都是向高收入者施压。

Again we stress that we do not mean punishment, although by your earthly reckoning it may be seen as such according to your laws.

我们再次重申我们不是要表明一个“惩罚”，而是来自你们地球的清算，这看起来像是来自你们的法律。