They say the measure would likely lead to cutting the safety net to the poor and to deeper recessions.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

From 1983 to the present as you just said, the economy has a long period of smooth, robust expansion interrupted by two very mild recessions.

第二时期是从1983年至今，正如你所说，经济长时间处于,平稳强健的发展状态,而只出现了两次轻度衰退。

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We've had other economic problems that have led to recessions but it hasn't seemed to be something as potentially global as it is now.

我们经历过其他导致经济衰退的,经济问题，但是这些都不是,像现在这样全球化的问题。

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Harris Private Bank's Jack Ablin says deep recessions generate a vicious circle between job losses and reduced economic activity.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Big recessions have ended in November 1982, just a little more than 25 years ago, and since then the policy of getting inflation down And it's also not just the United States.

较严重的在1982年11月已触底回升，也就是25年前不久，从那开始，政策就一直维持了低通胀,不仅仅是美国。

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You might wonder how such treasures survived the hurricanes,fires, and recessions that have surely battered the area and indeed they have.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

Anyway this recession has been a model for what happens in recessions.

不论如何，这个经济衰退给,衰退中发生的事情做了个例子。

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"We have had depressions," "We have had recessions. It is a boom and bust cycle that we are having and people are starting to get fed up with it."

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

I have it shown with the--the vertical lines on this chart indicate recessions and this shows--this is from 1948 to 2007 and every recession that we've had since 1948 is shown.

我用图中的这些垂直的线表示,从1948年至2007年的经济衰退,从1948年以来的每一次衰退

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"We're probably,it looks now, like we'll continue to bump along maybe even have some bad months and unemployment is not going to recover as it has in some past recessions."

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Subsequent recessions were not like that.

随后的经济衰退并不像它那样。

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This is different than other recessions.

这与其他的经济衰退不一样。

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What's happened actually if we base it in the last 25 years since the early '80s We've just had two recessions and they've been very mild by historical standards and...two--now three long expansions in between.

实际上是什么情况呢,80年代初期以来，这25年当中,我们只经历过两次经济衰退,而且在历史上算是相对轻微的,其间则是两，三次长时间的经济增长。

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You can see that residential investment, as a fraction of GDP, has been very variable through history of the United States since World War II and that it's had a strong relationship with recessions.

住宅投资要计入,国内生产总值,纵观美国自二战以来,这部分投资,变动很大,而且与衰退存在着密切关联

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And now maybe...now I've just heard that maybe one of those two recessions wasn't even a classic recession at all So the question is 1890 to 1945 on the one hand, 1983 to the present on the other, does that tell us that ? we've gotten better at government interventions?

那么现在也许。。。就你们刚才所说,其中一次所谓的衰退也许,根本不能算是典型的经济衰退了,那么问题在于，从1890年到1945年，以及1983年至今的经济状况，是否说明,政府对经济的干预是有利的？

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