很多人认为，经济学家大部分时间用于预测经济的趋势。

Many people believe that economists spend most of their time trying to forecast the performance of the economy.

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政府未能扭转经济滑坡的趋势。

The government has failed to reverse the economic decline.

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欧洲的新经济气候在很大程度上助长了独立的趋势。

Europe's new economic climate has largely fostered the trend toward independence.

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But Amsterdam reflects this kind of primacy of the global economy, because it's such an important trading power, but also this federalist decentralized aspect that I've tried to describe.

但是当时的阿姆斯特丹反应了,一种全球化经济的趋势,因为它是非常重要的一股贸易势力,而联邦分权制的政体,正如我刚才说的,也是同等重要

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