He cut me off then, his voice husky and low, almost a whisper.
随后他打断了我的话语,他的声音沙哑而低沉,几乎在耳语。
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Interest rates have been cut dramatically. American rates are already down to 1%; Britain's are at a 50-year low; and this week China's central bank lopped 108 basis points off its main policy rate.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cutoff as the tops of the ears of corn.