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1.At the same time, U.S. President Barack Obama announced he would be skipping an E.U.-U.S. confab in Spain in May, frustrated, it appeared, with the endless summitry that goes with accommodating the E.U. Little wonder that Europe finds itself in one of its periodic bouts of angst-ridden self-doubt.

同时，美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马宣布并不会出席五月份在西班牙举行的欧美洽谈会。于无数迁就欧盟的会议来讲，这有点泄气。难怪欧盟发觉自己处在忧心忡忡的自疑的周期循环中2.All told, the strength of the developing world has supported the global economy

总之，发展中国家的力量撑起了世界经济。

3.A burst of productivity could lift incomes and profits. That would enable consumers to repay some of their debt yet continue to spend.

劳动生产率的提高会增加收入和利润，这会使消费者在偿还一部分债务的同时继续消费。1.But change is upon us. The developed world of the haves is struggling to restart growth and preserve welfare states, while the world of the once have-nots has out of the downturn

世界形势正发生着变化。在发达国家的富人们努力重新刺激经济增长并维持社会福利的时候，曾经的穷人们却已经摆脱了经济困境

2.But this particular recession was triggered by a financial crisis that damaged the financial system’s ability to channel savings to productive investment and left consumers and businesses struggling with surplus buildings, equipment and debt accumulated in the boom.

但是由于本次经济萧条是由金融危机引发的，后者严重削弱了金融体制有效分流投资的能力，使消费者和企业在经济繁荣期积累下的多余建筑、装备和债务中费力挣扎。

3.But the bubbles popped in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and Japan fell into a slow but relentless decline that neither enormous budget deficits nor a flood of easy money has reversed.

但泡沫破裂在80年代末和90年代初，日本陷入了缓慢但无情的经济衰退，无论是巨额财政赤字也不是热钱逆转。但气泡突然出现在20世纪80年代末和90年代初，日本陷入了缓慢但无情的，无论是巨大的预算赤字，也不是宽松的货币洪水已经扭转下降。

4.Bartenders say the clientele these days is too cost-conscious to show the studied disregard for money that was long considered the height of refinement.

酒保说，顾客现在对价格太敏感了，不再像以前那样装清高对钱故意表示出一种漠视。

1.Contrast this to Russia, where thuggish autocracy has created an "anything goes" environment in which neither investors nor most officials have any idea what might happen from one moment to the next.

与此相反，俄罗斯，残暴的专制创造了一个“一切”的环境中，无论是投资者也不是大多数官员知道下一刻会发生什么。与此相反的俄罗斯，在那里创造了凶残的专制的“怎么都行”的环境中，既不是投资者，也不是大多数官员有任何想法可能会发生什么，从一个时刻到下一个。

2.China is the only major economy that is likely to show signficant growth this year , because it is the only one that routinely breaks every rule in the economic textbooks.In fact,the main reason China is not slowing as fast as the order big five economies is its capacity for macro-economic control.

中国是今年唯一呈现出重大发展的主要经济体，由于它通常是唯一敢于打破经济教科书中每一条例的经济体。事实上，中国不像其他五大经济体那样发展缓慢的主要原因是，它宏观调控的能力。

1.Europhiles dusted off their familiar dream: of a newly emboldened world power stepping up to calm trouble spots, using aid and persuasion where it could, but prepared to send in troops when it

had to.

亲欧盟派们重温旧梦：一个新建的世界强权来安抚动荡地区，在能力可及之地给予援助和劝服，但同时准备在万不得已之时派遣军队。

2.Europe is right to think big — both for its own sake and for that of others.

欧洲正在思考怎么强大----即为了自己又为了其他一些国家的利益。

1.Given that the scale of the downturn was so epochal, it should not be surprising that the nature

of the recovery would likewise be the stuff of history

考虑到经济衰退幅度如此的跨时代，经济复苏进程会很慢也是理所当然的，对此我们不应该感到吃惊

1..He gave up options to buy thousands of lots that the firm had snapped up across Arizona, Florida, Nevada and California during the boom, taking massive losses.

他没有买下经济繁荣时期公司在亚利桑那州、佛罗里达州、内华达州和加州抢购到的房产，因此损失惨重

2.He created a company that guides homeowners through an elaborate legal subterfuge in which they erase the original loan by declaring personal bankruptcy, but continue to live in their home by “selling” it to a relative, who takes out a smaller loan to pay its greatly reduced price.

他创办了一个公司，指导私房屋主通过一个精心制作的合法借口宣告个人破产，抹去原始贷款，但是继续住进他们家，通过把房子“卖”给一个亲戚，亲戚拿出更少的借款来支付大大减少的价格。

1.it is this decline of a once wealthy and dynamic nation into a deep social and cultural rut that is perhaps Japan’s most ominous lesson for the world today.

这个一度富有且充满活力的国家，衰退到在社会和文化方面都墨守陈规，这可能是日本给今日世界最不详的教训。

2..In the mind of every policymaker looms —at least, it should —the disastrous spiral into protectionism that deepened the Depression in the 1930s.

决策者至少应该想到，这种灾难性的螺旋式保护主义曾加剧了20世纪30年代的大萧条。3.In India, raging food prices, galloping ahead by nearly 17% from a year earlier, have become such a sensitive issue that when Pakistan temporarily cut off some exports of onions to the country, it sparked a minor diplomatic row.在印度，疯狂的物价较去年已飞速增长了近17%，这已经成为了非常敏感的问题。以致于巴基斯坦在临时缩减对印度的洋葱出口时引发了轻微的外交争执。

4.In the U.S. and Europe, a certain helplessness in the face of huge economic forces is fueling a disaffection — which makes itself felt in different ways in different societies — with the global financial elites and the policymakers who are thought to have connived with them.

在美国和欧洲，面对巨大经济压力却无能为力的现象正激起着人们对全球的金融精英以及决策者的不满，认为金融精英与决策者们串通一气，这种不满在不同社会表现形式不同。

5.In the recovery the economy might therefore be expected to grow by 6-8% and unemployment to fall steadily, as happened after two earlier recessions of comparable depth, in 1973-75 and 1981-82.

因此在经济复苏的过程中，经济总量可能会按照预估的6-8%的速度增长，失业率会持续下跌，与本次经济危机严重程度相似的1973-75 和1981-82的两次经济危机都证明了这一点。

https://www.360docs.net/doc/558459707.html,st year, he sold his condo — for a third of what he paid for it, and for less than what he still owed on the mortgage he took out 17 years ago.

去年，他卖掉了自己的公寓，为他付了三分之一，并低于他还欠他拿出了17年前的抵押贷款。去年，他卖掉了自己的公寓- 第三个是什么，他为它付出，少比他还欠

他拿出17年前的抵押贷款。

1.Meritage is now catering to the only customers able to get credit: first-time buyers with federally guaranteed loans. It is clawing its way back to health as a leaner, humbler comp any.

现在的Meritage公司仅为能贷到款的顾客提供服务，即那些享有联邦ZF担保贷款的初次购房者。公司正变的更加节约务实，以求挣扎着生存下去。

2.Many point to the current insider-trading case involving the detention of China's richest man, Huang Guangyu (the founder of electronics retailer Gome), as proof that the government is also getting more serious about prosecuting corruption.

许多指向当前内幕交易案件涉及拘留中国首富的黄光裕，（方正电器零售商国美电器），作为证明，政府也越来越严重的起诉腐败。多点到目前的内幕交易案件涉及被拘留的中国首富，黄光裕（电子产品零售商国美的创始人），证明，政府也越来越严重检控贪污。

1.Perhaps the most intriguing evolution in China's hybrid markets is in the way leaders are tracking public opinion

也许在中国的混合市场最有趣的进化是在领导跟踪公共舆论的方式在中国的混合动力市场的发展也许最有趣的是领导人在跟踪公众意见

1.Simply figuring out who owns which properties can be a Byzantine task in China, so land reform could take decades-but the idea is already generating excitement.只要搞清楚谁拥有哪些属性可以在中国是一个拜占庭式的任务，所以土地改革可能需要几十年，但这个想法已经产生兴奋。只要搞清楚谁拥有该属性可以是拜占庭帝国的一个任务在中国，所以土地改革可以采取一样的观念已经产生兴奋。

2.Still, as political pressure builds to reduce federal spending and budget deficits, other economists are now warning of “Japanification” —of falling into the same deflationary trap of collapsed demand that occurs when consumers refuse to consume, corporations hold back on investments and banks sit on cash.

尽管如此，随着政治压力构成的联邦开支和预算赤字的减少，其他经济体如今被“日本化”警告，当消费者拒绝去消费，企业控制收入和银行坐拥现金时，落入同样通缩陷阱的需求暴涨会发生。

1.The classic explanation of the evils of deflation is that it makes individuals and businesses less willing to use money, because the rational way to act when prices are falling is to hold onto cash, which gains in value.

通货紧缩的罪恶的经典解释是使个体和商家更不愿意用钱，因为合理的方式是当价钱下降时，保住价值上涨的现金。

2.The demilitarization of Europe — where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it — has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st.

欧洲的非军事化-从20世纪的信念已经走向一个妨碍实现真正安全和持久和平的21世纪。欧洲大片的民意和政治阶层都反对军事力量和军事化所带来的威胁

3.The E.U. may have all the soft-power credentials in the world, but on the grand stage it has lacked the weight and influence of others.

欧盟也许拥有世界上所有的软实力优势，但在重大场合它缺少对他人的权威和影响力。4.The E.U.s defenders moreover would argue that in its immediate neighborhood its success has had a quotdemonstration effectquot that is not to be underestimated.

难以让人理解的是欧盟的捍卫者就会反对欧盟成员国的建立有一个示范性的效应。

5.The fact that Chinese leaders understand even in the midst of the credit crisis that more sophisticated forms of securitization can play a stabilizing role is a sign of strategic thinking, and great skill at learning from others' mistakes.

事实上，中国领导人明白即使在这场信贷危机，更复杂的形式的证券化可以发挥稳定作用，是一种战略思维，和伟大的技巧，从别人的错误中学习。

事实上，中国领导人明白，即使在信贷危机之中，更复杂的形式的证券化，可起到稳定的作用，是一个标志的战略思想，从别人的错误中学习和高超的技巧。

6.The original Asian success story, Japan rode one of the great speculative stock and property bubbles of all time in the 1980s to become the first Asian country to challenge the long dominance of the West.

原来的亚洲的成功故事之一，日本在上世纪80年代以来最大的投机股市和楼市泡沫成为亚洲第一个挑战西方的长期统治的国家。

原亚洲的成功故事，日本骑着之一，伟大的投机股票和房地产泡沫的所有时间在20世纪80年代成为第一个亚洲国家的长期统治地位的西方挑战。

7.the WEF's closely read Global Risks report identifies "global governance failures" as an overarching risk facing the world.

全球经济论坛倍受关注的全球风险报告指出当今世界面临的首要风险是“全球治理失败”

8.ThoughEurope is wheezing under cascading sovereign-debt crises, it has so faravoided the worst-case scenarios — a collapse of the euro, a debt crisis that spills from smalleconomies such as Greece and Ireland to much bigger ones like Italy and Spain, and bitter socialunrest in those nations that are having to massage wages down while cutting public budgets.

尽管欧洲一直在一重接一重的主权外债危机下苟延残喘，但是它到目前为止已经避免了最糟糕的状况——欧元崩溃，欧元崩溃是一种债务危机，从希腊和爱尔兰这样小的经济体流窜到意大利和西班牙这样大的经济体，并且加剧了一些国家的社会骚乱，这些国家在缩减公共预算的同时不得不减少薪资。

9.Turning peasants into land-owning consumers could go a long way toward creating a consumer society, reducing China's dependence on exports, and rebalancing the world economy.

把农民变成拥有土地的消费者可以去建立一个消费社会，减少中国对出口的依赖，重新平衡世界经济的一个很长的路要走。

把农民拥有土地的消费者可以去长的路走向创造一个消费者的社会，减少中国对出口的依赖，和世界经济的再平衡。

10.there are growing fears that the United States and many European economies could face a prolonged period of slow growth or even, in the worst case, deflation, something not seen on a sustained basis outside Japan since the Great Depression.

人们越来越担心，美国和许多欧洲国家可能面临长期增长缓慢甚至，在最坏的情况下，通货紧缩，有没有看到持续的基础上，在日本的大萧条以来。

有越来越多的担心，美国和许多欧洲经济体可能会面临一个长期的缓慢增长甚至，在最坏的情况下，通货紧缩，日本以外的大萧条以来持续的基础上没有看到的东西。

https://www.360docs.net/doc/558459707.html,eful attributes no doubt but hardly the ones needed to make the E.U. count on the international stage.

毫无疑问，这是一个很有用的品质，但是这也很难使欧盟在国际舞台上有分量

1.When asked in dozens of interviews about their nation’s decline, Japanese, from policy makers and corporate chieftains to shoppers on the street, repeatedly mention this startling loss of vitality. 当被问到在采访关于他们国家的衰落，许多来自日本，政策制定者和在街上购物

公司老总，反复提及这惊人的活力丧失。

当被问及在几十个自己国家的下降，日语，政策制定者和企业的头目在街上购物的采访时，多次提到这一点令人吃惊的丧失活力。

2.Witness the political battle over American charges that China is deliberately holding down the value of the yuan to boost its exports, a charge that ignores the gradual 21.5 percent rise in the yuan that had already taken place between the summer of 2005 and 2008.

见证了政治斗争，美国，中国是故意按住来促进本国出口的价值上万元的费用，一次充电，忽略了循序渐进的21.5％，人民币升值已经发生的夏天，2005年和2008年之间。

证人在美国指控中国是故意压低人民币汇率以促进出口的政治斗争，电荷，忽略了已经发生的2005和2008之间的夏季人民币逐步升值百分之21.5。

3.While Japan remains in many ways a prosperous society, it faces an increasingly grim situation, particularly outside the relative economic vibrancy of Tokyo, and its situation provides a possible glimpse into the future for the United States and Europe, should the most dire forecasts come to pass.

日本依然在很多方面是一个繁荣的社会，面对日益严峻的形势，特别是在东京对外经济活力，日本的形势让人们瞥见了美国和欧洲的未来，最可怕的预测可能发生