quarter round

1. Such risks were already evident for Dell during its last reported quarter, when the Round Rock, Texas, company increased its consumer PC sales even as that division failed to make a profit.
   在戴尔上个季度公布的收益中，这种风险已经显露出来了，当时公司的个人电脑销量增加，却没有盈利。
2. Two or three days before the Quarter final against Argentina, who were the top favourites, I didn't have any doubts left that we'd reach the next round.
   在四分之一决赛对抗阿根廷之前的两三天，谁到达最好状态，我毫不怀疑我们都到达另一个高峰。
3. It is larger than the USA and reaches nearly a quarter of the way round the earth.
   它比美国还要大，它的国土的长度几乎达到地球周长的四分之一。
4. These initial indicators of a positive start to the fourth quarter are unlikely to be sufficient to prevent the Federal Reserve from pumping money into the economy on Wednesday, in a second round of quantitative easing aimed at boosting the US growth rate further.
   这些表明第四季度开局良好的初步指标，可能不足以阻止美联储（Fed）在周三启动第二轮量化宽松货币政策，为进一步促进美国经济增长，向经济中再次注入大量资金。
5. Chinese bank lending slowed dramatically in April because of fears that loan growth in the first quarter had been excessive and could pave the way for loans of deteriorating quality, so possibly creating a new round of asset bubbles.
   由于担心一季度信贷增长过度，并且可能会导致贷款质量不断恶化，进而可能带来新一轮资产泡沫，4月份中国银行放贷已明显放缓。
6. China ′ s economy appears a series of positive changes during the first quarter of 2003. China "is stepping into a new round of economic growth".
   2003年一季度我国经济出现了一系列积极变化，我国经济“正步入新一轮的增长期”。

noun

1. a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

   Synonym:    ovolothumb