The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.

贸易逆差是一次经济快速发展带来的负面产物。

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The trade deficit remains the soft underbelly of the US economy.

贸易赤字仍是美国经济的软肋。

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When the Commerce Department reported last week that the trade deficit in June approached $50 billion, it set off a new round of economic doomsaying.

上周美国商务部报告称，6月份的贸易逆差接近500亿美元，这引发了新一轮的经济末日预言。

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EU Finance Commissioner Olli Rehn made the call after a first round of talks with Greek officials amid growing market expectations of a trade-off between new deficit cutting steps and practical EU support for Greek borrowing.

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But now this dropping of the value of the dollar is one thing that's been helping to correct the trade deficit.

目前美元的贬值,刚好可以帮助扭转贸易逆差。

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The U.S. has too big of a trade deficit, and China has too big of a trade surplus.

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IMF's analysis, is not due to shifts in domestic spending, but to changes in the manufacturing trade of these countries: America has had a widening trade deficit over much of that period, Japan a widening surplus.

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Despite worsening terms of trade and appreciation of our currency, the trade deficit is the same as last year.

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