||1: Will it do so again this year, possibly dooming Mr Obama’s re-election? ||2: Two factors explain the economy’s previous false starts. ||3: First, banks, households and governments are paring their debts. ||4: That “deleveraging” has further to go, but seems to have slowed as rock-bottom interest rates coax consumers to indulge some of their pent-up demand for homes and cars. State and local government lay-offs have also slowed. ||5: Meanwhile firms that were able to meet increased demand by boosting the productivity of their existing workforce no longer can. ||6: Productivity growth, which topped 6% in the wake of the recession, slowed to just 0.5% in the fourth quarter (from a year earlier). ||7: In December employers reported total job vacancies of 3.4m, close to its highest since 2008.

||1:今年是否还会如此？如果状况再次发生，恐怕奥巴马的连任竞选将面临破产。||2:两个原因可解释之前美国经济错误的着手点。||3:银行，居民，和政府都在逐步清还债务。||4:尽管降低债务杠杆还有很长的路要走，但至少借款已经减缓，与此同时，低至谷底的银行利率也诱惑消费者暂时满足下他们对住房及汽车压抑已久的购买欲。||5:此外，之前，工厂可以通过提高已有劳动力的生产效率满足日益增加的需求，但现在，这种方法行不通了。||6:即使生产效率一度在经济衰退后以6%的速度增长，去年第四季度也降低到了0.5%。||7:去年十二月，雇主反馈职位空缺总量达到三百四十万，接近2008年以来的最高值。

In September 2008, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup did this to Lehman, effectively dooming it.

2008年9月，摩根大通和花旗银行要求雷曼提供更多抵押品，最终导致其破产。

Republicans protest that since the money Mr Obama is spraying about is borrowed, he is dooming the nation to higher taxes in the future.

共和党抗议说现在奥巴马总统花出去的钱是借来的，这只会把美国带入将来高税收的境地。

Oil and gas rushed up the well, dooming the rig and 11 of her crew.

石油和天然气冲出井，折断了成套装置，11位工作人员也因而丧生。