Feeling the pain from the initial credit squeeze last year and fearing worse to come, the firm cut its workforce by 30% this year and reduced its cash burn rate by half.

去年它就受到信贷紧缩的困扰，现在麻烦可能越来越大，该公司今年已经裁员30%，将它的现金净支出量减少了一半。

Performance runs on them give worse performance (about half the IB throughput) than the 4-way nodes.

这些机器的性能(大约为IB吞吐量的一半)比4路节点的性能还糟糕。

Energy efficiency was only 0.09 percent worse in the first half of this year than in the same period in 2009, according to statistics released last week.

根据上周发布的官方数据显示，相比于2009年同期，今年上半年的能源效率仅下降了0.09%。

The more success Teresa had - and half a year later so many young women had joined her society that she needed to move again - the worse she felt.

随着越来越多的年轻女性加入她的服侍，特丽莎修女越成功，她的感觉就越糟糕。

Worse, half or more of the 14, 000 staff are expected to lose their jobs.

更糟糕的是，14,000[font=SimSun]名员工中一半以上的人可能会失业。