历史英雄名人演讲 第81期:目前的挑战和风险

 　　10.Current Challenges and Risks

　　10.目前的挑战和风险

　　The world economy is going through the most challenging economic and financial stress in generations.

　　世界经济正在经历多年来最具挑战性的经济和财政压力。

　　The International Monetary¹ Fund predicts that the world economy will shrink this year for the first time in more than six decades. The collapse² of world trade is likely to be the worst since the end of World War II. The lost output, compared to the world economys potential growth in a normal year, could be between three and four trillion dollars.

　　国际货币基金组织预测，今年世界经济将出现60多年来的首次萎缩。世界贸易的衰退很可能是自第二次世界大战结束以来最严重的。与正常年份世界经济的潜在增长率相比，产出损失可达到3至4万亿美元。

　　In the face of this challenge, China and the United States are working together to help shape a strong global strategy to contain the crisis and to lay the foundation for recovery. And these efforts, the combined effect of forceful policy actions here in China, in the United States, and in other major economies, have helped slow the pace of deteriorat ion in growth, repair the financial system, and improve confidence.

　　面对这一挑战，中国和美国共同努力，帮助形成一个强有力的全球战略，遏制危机，为经济复苏奠定基础。这些努力，以及中国、美国和其他主要经济体所采取的强有力政策行动的综合效应，已帮助减缓增长的恶化速度，修复金融系统和提升信心。

　　In fact, what distinguishes the current crisis is not just its global scale and its acute severity, but the size and speed of the global response.

　　事实上，当前危机与以往的区别，不仅在于其全球规模及严重程度，还在于全球反应的范围和速度。

　　At the G-20 Leaders meeting in London in April, we agreed on an unprecedented³ program of coordinated⁴ policy actions to support growth, to stabilize⁵ and repair the financial system, to restore the flow of credit essential for trade and investment, to mobilize financial resources for emerging market economies through the international financial institutions, and to keep markets open for trade and investment.

　　在4月份的20国集团领导人伦敦会议上，我们商定了一个前所未有的协调的政策行动计划，以支持经济增长，稳定和修复金融体系，恢复对贸易和投资至关重要的信贷流动，通过国际金融机构来为新兴市场经济体调动财政资源，并保持贸易和投资市场的开放。

　　That historic accord on a strategy for recovery was made possible in part by the policy actions already begun in China and the United States.

　　这项针对经济复苏战略的历史性协定之所以达成，部分取决于中国和美国已经出台的政策行动。

　　China moved quickly as the crisis intensified⁶ with a very forceful program of investments and financial measures to strengthen domestic demand.

　　在危机加剧时，中国迅速出台了强有力的增强国内需求的投资和金融措施计划。

1 monetary   

adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的

参考例句：

• The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

2 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

3 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

4 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

5 stabilize   

vt.（使）稳定，使稳固，使稳定平衡；vi.稳定

参考例句：

• They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
• His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。

6 intensified   

v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
• The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》