制造业不再像过去那样是经济发展的引擎了。

Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.

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高利率阻碍了经济发展。

High interest rates are a brake on the economy.

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修建这些水坝可提供廉价的电力，为工人创造就业机会，刺激了地区经济发展，并允许在否则将过于干燥的土地上进行耕种。

Building these dams provided cheap electricity, created jobs for workers, stimulated regional economic development, and allowed farming on lands that would otherwise be too dry.

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Unity was difficult. Being somewhat isolated, the inhabitants of each region developed a distinctive economic and cultural character.

团结很困难，它有一点孤立，每一个地域的居民都发展起来,有了各自经济文化特点。

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That economy and that society go forward and flourish for, as I say, about 400 years maybe--perhaps about 400 years.

这种经济和社会,发展繁荣了,大概四百年,也许四百年

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Quotation number two, the Wall Street Journal "The stimulus won't do much for the economy, . but is driving a higher deficit.

第二个引述来自华尔街日报,“这一刺激计划并不见得能刺激经济发展，反而大大增加了财政刺字。

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