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.
实际上，英德两国在第二季度大部分时间内，财政状况都具有不确定性：英国是因为一次临近的选举，德国是因为承诺要帮助希腊和其他国家。
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.
通用将会雇佣那些可以在第二季度前上岗的离职工人来填补新的轮班，公司并无计划招聘新员工。
If you look at France and Germany, they did nothing in the second quarter.
就像法国和德国那样，他们在第二季度没有实施任何措施。

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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