赤字

We were the Peking duck' is not an acceptable explanation for what happened in the deficit countries.

"我们是北京烤鸭"不能解释赤字国所发生的一切。

Rudy Penner, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, an economic- and social-policy think tank, said the deficit this year and next will remain 'very high.

经济与社会政策智库Urban Institute高级研究员鲁迪·佩纳表示，今明两年的政府预算赤字仍会非常高。

The result is a deficit of unprecedented size but with no perceptible pressure from financial markets to reduce it.

最终的结果则是空前的财政赤字，金融市场上却并无起色。

That means the government can run budget deficits in perpetuity, as long as they are not too large.

这意味着政府可以一直保持赤字状态，只要规模不是很大。

However, now these deficits seem to have passed the point of no return.

不过，现在这些赤字好像已经超过了政府控制范围之内。

Postmaster General John Potter has said that even with the higher prices the agency expects a deficit this year as it struggles to compete in a swiftly changing communications market.

邮政局长John Potter表示，即便价格更高，估计今年邮局仍会出现赤字，因为它在一个迅速转变的通讯市场里竞争。

Barack Obama and Congress can pre-empt such corrosive uncertainty with a plan to reduce the deficit now.

目前奥巴马和美国会可以先发制人的采取缩减赤字计划来阻止这种有破坏作用的不确定性。

Tonga's most acute problem is economic precariousness. Its $39 million annual deficit is balanced only by $24 million remitted by relatives, about $8 million in foreign aid, and tiny exports of vanilla and vegetables.

汤加最尖锐的问题是经济不稳定，它每年三千九百万美元的赤字只能靠国人海外亲属寄回来的二千四百美汇款、约八百万美元的外援以及少量出口香草和蔬菜的收入来平衡。

Europe is now struggling with a crisis precipitated by Greece's failure to stick to that target.

欧洲如今正在努力应对因希腊没能保持3%的赤字水平而引发的危机。

The best way to reduce the deficit is to make sure we have pro-growth economic policies in place and be smart and wise about how we spend your money.

减少赤字的最佳做法就是确保制定出促进增长的经济政策并且政府是如何明智地运用纳税人的资金的。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。