near-term target

Most press reports focused either on the Fed's downgrade of the near-term outlook or on its adoption of a long-run 2 percent inflation target.

许多媒体集中报道美联储下调了对短期前景的预期，或者是其通过一项为2%的长期通胀目标。

Citing "downside risks" to a much-reduced economic outlook, the Fed said its short-term interest-rate target, near zero since the end of 2008, will probably stay there until at least mid-2013.

引用“下跌风险”来描述大幅下降的经济前景，美联储指出其短期利率目标将可能维持现在的水平一直到2013年中期，目前的利率自2008年底以来一直接近于0。

Citing "downside risks" to a much-reduced economic outlook, the Fed said its short-term interest - rate target, near zero since the end of 2008, will probably stay there until at least mid-2013.

美联储将“下行风险”削减至可能严重影响经济前景的水平，声称从2008年底零利率水平起，短期利率的目标是维持该水平直到2013年年初。