I think it's much severe than what you have experienced in the past year or two for the general economic situation.

甚至比过去两年的经济形势,还要严峻。

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So I think that it's true that the economy is difficult and there is big challenge in front of us.

所以我觉得，目前的经济形势真的很困难，我们面临着很大的挑战。

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The economic health of this country in the long run will be dependent on the economic health of the treasury, of our fiscal situation and we can't get that under control until we get the entitlement crisis under control.

而且这个国家的长期经济健康,会依赖于,国库的经济健康和财政形势的健康,只有控制好津贴的危机,才能控制住这些经济的问题。

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I would love for the economy to do better for us to be able to sell the house and, you know, get out from under it.

我希望经济形势能让我们的情况变得好点儿，让我们有能力卖掉房子，然后，从中解脱。

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This Paulson proposal probably has very little chance of being implemented as is, but it's put in to change the discussion and it's going to be talked about a lot and I suppose it will influence what happens.

其实鲍尔森的计划基本上不能,完完全全的实施下去，但是他的努力将起到改变人们话题的作用,人们的讨论也将越来越激烈,我相信这会影响我们将来的经济形势的。

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really just realizing how important they are to society and to stabilize our economy.

应该要意识到移民对这个国家是重要的，也是有利于稳定经济形势的。

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