the second quarter

基本解释

Indeed for most of the second quarter, fiscal uncertainty hung over both countries: in Britain because of a close election, in Germany because of commitments to help Greece and other countries.
實際上，英德兩國在第二季度大部分時間內，財政狀況都具有不確定性：英國是因爲一次臨近的選擧，德國是因爲承諾要幫助希臘和其他國家。
GM will fill the shift by recalling laid off workers who will start arriving in the second quarter. It expects to hire no new employees.
通用將會雇傭那些可以在第二季度前上崗的離職工人來填補新的輪班，公司竝無計劃招聘新員工。
If you look at France and Germany, they did nothing in the second quarter.
就像法國和德國那樣，他們在第二季度沒有實施任何措施。

One major lender lost more than a billion and a half dollars in the second quarter.
"Most of the economies, including Thailand, showed a pick-up in the second quarter GDP, the Asian region was leading the turn around in the global picture,".
Government officials still have not declared the recession officially over, but the GDP report marks the second quarter of expansion after a record four quarters of decline.

Cablevision, serving the New York area, scored 122, 000 voice customers in the second quarter.
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