In Colorado, despite a multimillion-dollar deficit, the Denver Public Library has practically done away with fixed-rate fines.
在科罗拉多州,尽管有数百万美元的逆差,丹佛公共图书馆已经几乎消灭了固定比率的罚款。
Such anxiety is likely to be bigger when public debts are worryingly high because taxpayers judge that the need to reduce the deficit will soon hurt their finances.
当公共债务大到令人担心时,这样消费者焦虑会更大,因为纳税人认为赤字减少的要求会快速地损害他们的财经状况。
If we are successful on these respective paths, public and private saving in the United States will increase as recovery strengthens, and as this happens, our current account deficit will come down.
如果我们在各自的路径上成功,随着复苏增强,美国的公共和私人储蓄将上升,并且随之,我们的经常账户赤字将减少。
But revenues repeatedly fell short of forecasts, so the public sector swung into a big deficit in the fiscal year to March 2002 and has stayed there ever since.
但是反复性收支预期不足导致到2002年为止财政年度公共支出产生巨大赤字,并持续保持这个水平。
This is particularly grating now, because he is cutting public spending and asking the French to retire later in life in order to reduce the budget deficit.
现在的批评更为激烈,因为萨科奇正在削减公共开支并要求法国人推迟退休以降低预算赤字。
Gordon Brown now makes the case for an activist state, even though his legacy is unaffordable public spending and a record deficit.
布朗现在正为将来的积极的州政策而作证,即使他留下的是巨大的公共消费以及创纪录的财政赤字。
Bing's radical plan is to shrink Detroit in order to save it: Raze decaying neighborhoods and cut public services and the crushing fiscal deficit.
宾的基本计划是缩减底特律的开支以对其实施拯救:将被废弃的小区夷为平地、削减公共服务项目、缩小破坏性的财政赤字。
Control of public spending had been relaxed in the run-up to the election, adding to the deficit.
在大选前对公共开支的控制有所放松,这使赤字问题更为严重。
The main relief for the middle class is that many of its members have jobs in the public sector, which can resort to deficit spending.
对他们来说,可以松一口气的是,该阶层的人多在公共部门供职,实在不行寅吃卯粮也行。
We can argue about whether the ends justify the means (i.e. deficit spending) but the public can grasp the need for such a mechanism.
我们可以就是否应该只问目的不问手段(也就是说赤字开支)进行争论,但公众能够理解采取这类措施的必要性。
The new measures do not alter the timing of France's plan for the public finances: the deficit should still fall to 4.5% of GDP next year, and 3% in 2013.
新方案并不能改变法国公共财政计划的时间选择:赤字仍应降在明年降至GDP的4.5%,2013年为3%。
In 2010 the budget deficit will be at least 32% of GDP and the public debt is almost 100% of GDP.
2010年预算赤字将占gdp的至少32%,而公共债务几乎占gdp的100%。
Italy has public debt of a similar scale, relative to GDP, to Greece’s; but its budget deficit is only half as big and its current-account deficit is relatively small.
意大利国债规模与GDP之比也与希腊差相仿佛,但预算赤字只相当于希一半,经常帐户赤字也相当小。
A paradox of the debt crisis is that the 16-nation euro zone, as a whole, has a budget deficit of around 6% of its gross domestic product and total public debts of around 84% of GDP.
债务危机的悖论在于,16国欧元区整体的预算赤字是GDP的6%左右,公共债务总额是GDP的84%左右。
The primary deficit is the deficit calculated excluding the payment of interest on the public debt.
基本赤字是指去除了利息负担后的公债额。
Reining in the budget deficit, over 8% of GDP in 2009, will mean rises in heating costs and cuts in a bloated public sector.
如果把财政赤字控制在09年GDP的8%以上,就意味着必须要增加供热成本,缩减臃肿的公共机构。
The euro zone's public finances have improved dramatically, from a combined structural deficit of 2.1% of GDP before the 2001 recession to a deficit of only 0.7% of GDP in 2007.
欧元区公共财政状况也大为好转,复合结构性赤字由2001年衰退前的占GDP2.1%下降到0.7%。
The budget deficit as a share of GDP may be on a par with Greece's, but Britain's public debt started much lower, at less than 50% of national output in 2007, compared with over 100% in Greece.
虽然,预算赤字占其GDP比重可能会赶上希腊,但是英国的公共债务起点较低,在2007年少于GDP的50%,而当时希腊的公共债务已经超过其GDP。
The deterioration in Britain’s public finances is also worse than in other leading economies. Next year’s deficit as a share of GDP will be the highest in the G7 economies, according to the IMF.
英国经济的衰退相对于其他主要经济体也是较为严重的,根据国际国币基金组织的(推算),下一年度英国财政赤字占GDP的比例将位居七国集团成员国之首,在2007至2014年间期其债台也将是筑最高的。
Portugal is doing better than Greece in its budget deficit (9.4% of GDP in 2009, compared with 12.7%) and public debt (85% of GDP this year, against 124% in Greece).
葡萄牙在预算赤字(09年占gdp的9.4%,希腊为12.7%)和公共债务(今年为GDP的85%,希腊为124%)方面做得比希腊要好得多。
America, its authors write, lacks a credible strategy for dealing with its growing public debt, and is expanding its budget deficit at a time when it should be shrinking.
《展望》的作者写到,美国缺乏一个可靠的策略来处理其不断增多的公债,而且该国在一个应该紧缩的时候却在扩大其预算赤字。
A pleasant evening can descend into a dispute about who had a starter and who ordered the lobster. Running a public-sector deficit is similar: the arguments start when the TAB has to be paid.
一个美好的夜晚可能掉进谁点了开胃菜、谁点了龙虾的争吵中,处理公共部门的预算赤字跟账单的处理是类似的:当账单要被支付时,争吵便开始了。
A pleasant evening can descend into a dispute about who had a starter and who ordered the lobster. Running a public-sector deficit is similar: the arguments start when the TAB has to be paid.
一个美好的夜晚可能掉进谁点了开胃菜、谁点了龙虾的争吵中,处理公共部门的预算赤字跟账单的处理是类似的:当账单要被支付时,争吵便开始了。
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