The Kremlin leader says expenditures will exceed revenues for the first time in ten years, creating a budget deficit of no less than seven percent of the country's gross domestic product.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

Even in peacetime, military expenditures take up almost half of the budget of any European state, and in times of war, eighty percent.

即使在和平时期,欧洲任一国家的军费开支,也几乎占据了其预算的一半,在战时,更是达到了80%

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because the government's expenditures are only going to keep the economy afloat for so long.

因为政府的开支就是要保持经济的长期运转。

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The amount that we're spending for the year ending June 30,2008 is $843 million -that represents 37% of revenues--and we're projecting expenditures for the following year of $1.15 billion.

截至20008年6月30日,我们的年支出是8亿4千3百万美元,占了收入的37%,我们明年的支出预算是11亿5千万

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