||1:The Apocalypse was on its way, and it would begin in Mexico.||2:Where elsen When archaeologists dug up Mayan calendars that ominously seemed to run out in the final days of 2012, some doomsayers predicted the end of the world.||3:To many Mexicans it seemed like just another example of their country’s unending run of bad luck.||4:The steepest recession on the American mainland, a plague of H1N1 swine flu and a deepening war against organised crime had made the preceding few years fairly grim.||5:In 2009 the Pentagon had given warning that Mexico could become a “failed state”.||6:Armageddon would be the icing on the cake.

||1:《圣经·启示录》中的预言正在实现，而首当其冲的就是墨西哥。||2:舍此其谁？考古学家挖掘出的玛雅日历似乎到2012年末为止，这一凶兆为部分末日论者所用，预言为世界末日。||3:而众多墨西哥人看来，这不过是他们无限厄运的另一实例而已。||4:除了美洲大陆上经济最为不佳之外，墨西哥还遭受H1N1猪流感和缉毒战争的洗礼，其前途一片黯淡。||5:2009年，美国五角大楼（Pentagon）警示称，墨西哥可能成为“失败国家”。||6:《启示录》中的“大审判”（Armageddon）不过给其“锦上添花”罢了。

Doomsayers worry that the world has escaped from the financial frying pan into a fiscal fire.

悲观人士担心，世界好容易脱离了金融煎锅，又跳入了财政大火。

The doomsayers , however, will be disappointed. Japan is well enough run to defy their most dire predictions.

不过，宣称日本没救了的人将会感到失望——日本的运行状况足够良好，可以驳斥他们最悲观的预测。

Doomsayers warn that it is only a matter of time before excess capacity leads to a wave of bankruptcies and sour loans.

唱衰者警告称，产能过剩将会导致企业破产及坏账飙升，这只不过是时间问题。

But when the market is going up, no one cares about the doomsayers .

但当市场上涨时，没人把那些灾难预言家的话当回事。

Yet when disaster strikes, doomsayers do not get to crow.

但当灾难真得袭来时，乌鸦嘴们不再聒噪。

The doomsayers and pessimists have been wrong every time they have predicted the Chinese economy's pending demise.

每次，那些末日论调者和悲观主义者预计中国经济即将坠入深渊，结果每次都抽自己嘴巴。

Some of the most fervent and convincing doomsayers , after all, are scientists.

那些最狂热最有说服力的末日论者中有一部分正是科学家。

Over-borrowing and over-investment had artificially boosted growth, it was argued; doomsayers predicted a decade of lost growth.

他们认为过度借债和投资表面上刺激了经济的增长。预言家悲观预测亚洲经济将迎来为期十年的衰退期。

And anyway I think the doomsayers have got it wrong, more often than not, but this is a great reminder.

无论如何，我认为灾难预言者多半是错的，但是这是一个需要引起注意的提醒。

Backed by data showing a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, doomsayers have taken center stage.

由于资料显示世界第二大经济的增速减缓，悲观论者又卷土重来了。

Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers : repent and retrench before it is too late.

灾难预言者坚持认为，政府违约就在眼前：赶紧忏悔和缩减开支吧，否则就太晚了。

Doomsayers predicted a decade of lost growth, as in Latin America after its 1980s debt crisis.

灾难预言者们早已预言了10年的经济衰退期，就像拉丁美洲在80年代深陷债务危机一样。

In the 1980s, doomsayers had predicted that the fax machine would push the profession into oblivion.

在上世纪八十年代，一些乌鸦嘴曾宣称传真机将会使得这个职业被人遗忘。

Go much farther back in time and a lot of what those aforementioned doomsayers have been saying takes on more than a glimmer of truth.

追溯到更久远一点的时代，上述提及的那些预言者们向世人展示的不仅仅是真理的光芒。