如果你坚持老办法，必然会事倍功半。

You will get half the results with twice the effort if you keep using the old method.

然而，国会没有修改准则，而是继续坚持一年期的老办法。

Instead of changing the formula, however, Congress has consistently enacted one-year fixes.

“创造性思维也许只不过意味着能够意识到按老办法办事没什么特别可取之处。”语言权威人士鲁道夫·弗莱契写到。

"Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there is no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done," wrote Rudolph Flesch, a language authority.

本周，日本已把利率降低到0- 0.1%的范围，降息的老办法已经被用到黔驴技穷的地步。

The old tactic of cutting interest rates has been pursued almost to exhaustion, although Japan lowered rates to a 0-0.1% band this week.