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But the global financial crisis was constricting capital for these expensive projects , so energy companies began looking for new sources of funding .

但全球金融危机正在压缩流向这些昂贵开发项目的资金，所以能源企业开始寻找新的融资来源。

Donald rumsfeld , who served as defense secretary in the ford and george w. bush administrations , says constricting the pentagon 's budget imperils u.s. military readiness for the next conflict .

曾任福特（ford）和小布什（georgew.bush）政府国防部长的拉姆斯菲尔德（donaldrumsfeld）说，压缩五角大楼的预算可危及美国应对下一次冲突的军事防御准备能力。

Banks will be forced to increase their risk-weighted capital ratios by the middle of 2012 . But they may do so by shrinking their assets , thus constricting credit and exacerbating the squeeze on europe 's economies .

到2012年中，银行将被迫提高其抗风险资金比率，但他们也可以通过减少资产达到这个目的，而这样就将压缩信用，使紧缩的欧洲经济更加恶化。

What if , when tracing our genealogies , we abandoned thinking of ourselves in terms of the constricting and unscientific concepts of racial and ethnic identity , and thought instead about what ancestral motifs resonate in our genome ?

追踪人类的血统时，如果我们抛弃那种不科学、压缩式的种族及道德思考模式，转而思索祖先的序列在我们的基因中发出怎样的回响，那么，会有何变化呢？

Stimulants like caffeine and cigarettes create the physical sense of anxiety artificially by constricting blood vessels and raising the heart beat .

类似咖啡因或是香烟这样的刺激物可以通过收缩血管和让心跳加速来人为地在身体上制造出紧张感。