quarter-chord point

No ball point within a quarter of a mile was safe from his stubby little fingers.

凡在四分之一哩范围内的圆珠笔没有哪一支能逃过他粗短的小手指.

Swap contracts on the overnight call rate suggested that investors were pricing in a 70 per cent chance of a quarter-point rate cut from 0.5 per cent, compared with less than 20 per cent on Tuesday.

隔夜短期贷款利率互换合约的情况表明，投资者目前预期日本央行将利率从0.5%下调25个基点的几率为70%，而周二为不到20%。

Above there is a large square with beeswax, a foot square, inkstone pond has been grinding good thick juice, a mill to a quarter of his arm a good rough on the ink anchorage point.

上方有一方型大砚台，足有一尺见方，砚池里已有磨好的浓汁，一支磨去四分之一的胳膊粗的上等好墨，搁在砚角上。

At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was surrounded by an aureole.

坐了一刻钟，他站起来，仿佛又要向那条被宝光笼罩着的板凳走去。

Goldman's first-quarter results , out tomorrow, will also be a focal point.

高盛今年首季度的财报定于明日发布, 这也将成为外界关注的焦点.

Sales of the new iPhone could add between a quarter and a half of a percentage point to the annualized rate of economic growth in the fourth quarter, J.P. Morgan Chase& Co.'s chief U.S. economist Michael Feroli estimates.

摩根大通（J.P.Morgan Chase&Co.）首席美国经济学家费洛里（Michael Feroli）说，新iPhone的销售有望使第四季度年化经济增长率提高0.25至0.5个百分点。

Attempting "The Man Without Qualities" on a return to Hawaii, my native state, however, was less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes, then decided that I'd got the point and went swimming instead ．

在回到夏威夷也就是我出生的州的途中，我尝试阅读了《没有个性的人》，但收获较少：我通读了四分之一卷，然后觉得自己肯定已经了解了书的重点，就跑去游泳了。

It should also avoid a re-run of the rate rise cycle of the mid-2000s, when the Fed felt locked into making quarter-point increases in every meeting.

它也应当能够避免本世纪头十年中期的加息周期的重演，那时美联储觉得自己被逼入每次开会加息四分之一点的境地。

In the euro area as a whole, a quarter of a point is on offer.

在作为一个整体的欧盟, 25个百分点是可以理解的.

India's year-on-year growth rate could well hit double figures at some point in2007, and the country may even grow faster than China for at least one quarter.

2007年，印度经济年增长率达到两位数的日子指日可待，至少有一个季度的增速甚至可能超过中国。