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经济学人:欧元区 那种再次下沉的感觉

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(1). The euro zone
欧元区
(2). That sinking feeling (again)
那种再次下沉的感觉
(3). If Germany, France and Italy cannot find a way to refloat Europe’s economy, the euro may yet be doomed
如果德国、法国和意大利找不到办法重振欧洲经济,欧元就完蛋了
(4). 1:JUST a few months ago the euro zone’s leaders believed that, having weathered the storm, they were set fair at last.
2:Buoyed by the promise of Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, to do “whatever it takes” to support the currency, confidence had seeped back into the continent.
3:Growth seemed to be returning, albeit at a slow pace.
4:Troubled peripheral countries were recovering, after bail-outs and painful measures to cut budget deficits and improve competitiveness.
5:Unemployment, especially among the young, was still desperately high, but at least in most countries it was falling.
6:And bond spreads had narrowed sharply, as financial markets stopped betting that the euro would fall apart.
1:就在几个月前,欧元区领导人坚信,经受住了这场风暴,他们最终能取得胜利。
2:欧洲中央银行行长马里奥?德拉吉承诺无论付出多少代价都会支持欧元,德吉拉的承诺鼓舞了欧洲人民,欧洲人民的自信又回来了。
3:经济增长似乎在恢复,尽管是以较小的步伐。
4:通过紧急财政援助和痛苦的措施来减少财政赤字,提高竞争力,遭难的周边国家经济也在复苏。
5:失业率,尤其在年轻人中还是相当高的,但是至少在大多数国家该比率都在下降。
6:随着金融市场停止认为欧元会崩溃,票面利差急剧缩小。
(5). 1:It was an illusion.
2:In recent weeks the countries of the euro zone have begun to take in water once again.
3:Their collective GDP stagnated in the second quarter: Italy fell back into outright recession, French GDP was flat and even mighty Germany saw an unexpectedly large fall in output (see article).
4:The third quarter looks pretty unhealthy, partly because the euro zone will suffer an extra drag from Western sanctions on Russia.
5:Meanwhile, inflation has fallen perilously low, to around 0.4%, far below the near-2% target of the European Central Bank, raising fears that the zone as a whole could fall prey to entrenched deflation.
6:German bond yields are hovering below 1%, another harbinger of falling prices.
7:The euro zone stands (or wobbles) in stark contrast with America and Britain, whose economies are enjoying sustained growth.
1:这是一个错觉。
2:最近几个星期,欧元区国家已经再一次开始吸水。
3:他们所有GDP第二季度原地踏步:意大利彻底掉回衰退时期水平,法国GDP持平,即使是强大的德国也出人意料在出口方面大幅下降(另见文章)。
4:第三季度的状况看起来相当不乐观,部分原因是因为欧元区会受到西方国家对俄罗斯制裁的阻力。
5:同时,通货膨胀率降低幅度太小,只有0.4%左右,远低于欧洲中央银行的2%目标,引起了人们的恐慌,人们担心欧元区作为一个整体会成为根深蒂固通货紧缩的牺牲品。
6:德国公债利息在1%以下徘徊,这是另一个价格下降的征兆。
7:欧元区与英美完全相反,英美的经济正在持续增长。
(6). 1:What started more than four years ago as a banking and sovereign-debt crisis has decayed into a growth crisis that is now enveloping the three biggest economies.
2:Germany is teetering on the edge of recession.
3:France is mired in stagnation.
4:Italy’s GDP is barely above its level when the single currency came in 15 years ago.
5:Since these three countries account for two-thirds of euro-zone GDP, growth in places like Spain and the Netherlands cannot make up for their torpor.
1:四年多以前开始的银行业和国债危机衰退为经济增长危机,这个危机现在包围着这三大经济体。
2:德国在经济衰退的边缘摇晃。
3:法国陷于经济停滞的困境。
4:意大利GDP水平只略高于15年前欧元刚出现时的水平。
5:因为这三个国家占了欧元区总GDP的2/3,西班牙和荷兰地区的增长不能弥补他们的经济呆滞。
(7). 1:The underlying causes of Europe’s new ills are three very familiar and interrelated problems.
2:First, there is a shortage of political leaders with the courage and conviction to push through structural reforms to improve competitiveness and, eventually, reignite growth: the big countries have wasted the two years bought by Mr Draghi’s “whatever it takes” commitment.
3:Second, public opinion is not convinced of the urgent need for deep and radical changes.
4:And third, despite Mr Draghi’s efforts, the monetary and fiscal framework is too tight, throttling growth—which makes structural reforms harder.
1:欧洲新问题的根本原因在于三个非常相似相互关联的问题。
2:首先,缺少一个有勇气和威信的政治领导人,推动结构性改革来提高竞争力,最终重新获得增长活力:大国已经浪费了两年时间为德拉吉“无论付出多少代价”的承诺付出了代价。
3:第二个问题是,民众不相信急切需要深入彻底的改变。
4:第三,虽然有德拉吉的努力,货币和财政结构太紧,抑制了经济增长——这使得结构性改革更为艰难。
(8). 1:Different manifestations of these problems can be seen across the euro zone.
2:But the country that most dramatically epitomises all three is France.
3:This week its embattled Socialist president, Fran.
4:ois Hollande, was forced to reshuffle his government to eject Arnaud Montebourg who, despite being economy minister, was his own side’s most persistent critic from the left (see article).
5:Mr Hollande, who came to office in 2012 promising a painless future, is hardly a Thatcherite reformer.
1:这些问题在欧元区不同地方有不同的表现。
2:但是三个国家中最有代表性的是法国。
3:本周,处境艰难的社会党主席弗朗索瓦?奥朗德被迫进行政府改组,以便将身为经济部长却一直是他自己的左翼阵营中最坚决的批评者的阿诺德·蒙特布尔排挤出内阁。
4:奥朗德2012年入职,承诺会给人民带来一个美好的未来,他几乎称不上是一个撒切尔夫人的改革者。
5:但是自从他三月任命曼纽尔瓦尔斯为首相后,他至少坚持减少政府开支、降低税收和结构性改革的原则。
(9). 1:Mr Montebourg’s argument is all the more seductive because he is right about Europe’s third problem: excessive austerity, largely forced on the continent by Germany.
2:Mr Draghi has just implicitly conceded that fiscal and monetary policy in the euro zone is too tight at the annual economics jamboree in Jackson Hole.
3:He hinted that he was in favour of quantitative easing, which both America and Britain have used, and he called for fiscal policy to do more to encourage growth—a message plainly aimed at Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel.
4:She is the leader who insists most firmly on sticking to the euro zone’s rules on fiscal discipline, just as it is the German Bundesbank that is most strongly against quantitative easing.
1:蒙特布尔的观点更引人注目,因为他关于欧洲地第三个问题是正确的:过分的紧缩,主要在德国强迫执行。
2: 德吉拉在杰克逊霍尔的一年一度经济学大会上含蓄地承认欧元区财政和货币政策太紧。
3:他暗示道,他支持量化宽松,这个政策也是英美都曾使用过的,他呼吁制定更多鼓励增长的政策——这是一个明显针对德国总理安吉拉?默克尔的消息。
4:默克尔是最坚持欧元区财政纪律的领导人,好像德国联邦银行是最强烈反对量化宽松一样。
(10). Angie, we can say you never tried
安吉,我们可以说你从没有努力过
(11). 1:Despite the gloom, there should be scope here for a bargain.
2:If Mr Hollande and Mr Renzi can show they are sincere about structural reforms, Mrs Merkel should be willing to tolerate an easier fiscal stance (including higher public investment in Germany) and a looser monetary policy.
3:Close your eyes, and you can imagine the three leaders working with the European Commission to complete the single market and pushing through a trade deal with the United States.
4:Sadly, in the real world, Mrs Merkel has little reason to trust either France or Italy: whenever external pressure on them has eased, they have promptly backtracked on promises of reform.
5:And she has just installed Jean-Claude Juncker, the do-nothing candidate, as president of the European Commission.
1:虽然局势艰难,但是应该还有讨价还价的空间。
2:如果奥朗德和里兹能证明他们对结构性改革的真诚,默克尔可能愿意容忍更宽松的财政观点(包括在德国更高的公共投资)以及更宽松的货币政策。
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(12). 1:So it will be hard.
2:But without a new push from the continent’s leaders, growth will not revive and deflation could take hold.
3:Japan suffered a decade of lost growth in the 1990s, and is still struggling.
4:But, unlike Japan, Europe is not a single cohesive country.
5:If the currency union brings nothing but stagnation, joblessness and deflation, then some people will eventually vote to leave the euro.
6:Thanks to Mr Draghi’s promise to put a floor under government debt, the market risk that financial pressures could trigger a break-up has receded.
7:But the political risk that one or more countries decide to storm out of the single currency is rising all the time.
8:The euro crisis has not gone away; it is just waiting over the horizon.
1:所以,这会很难。
2:但是没有州领导人新的推动,增长不会复苏,通货紧缩会持续。
3:日本在20世纪90年代曾遭受十年的增长缓滞,而且现在还在努力。
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