"As lungs get progressively worse, the ability of the body to compensate goes down and the heart can't pump strongly enough," says Norman Edelman of the American lung Association.

“当肺部日益恶化时，机体代偿能力下降，心脏泵血机能不够强”，美国肺协的诺曼·艾得曼说。

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Since many American states are forced, by law, to run balanced budgets they cut spending or raise taxes in a downturn—the opposite of Keynesian pump-priming.

出于法律限制，许多州为实现预算平衡，被迫在下降周期中削减支出增出或增加税收，此举与凯恩斯主张的刺激型政策背道而驰。

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Nor does he care about the average American working-stiff who gets cardiac-arrest every time he pulls up to the gas pump.

他也不会理会普通美国辛苦的上班族, 每次把车开到加油站都会得心绞痛.

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Ultimately, that affects how much American consumers pay at the pump.

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In 2008, while automakers plodded along with the same old gas-guzzling models as the price at the pump hit record highs, American consumers scrambled for more fuel-efficient vehicles and left the gas-guzzlers to collect dust on the showroom floor.

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Were the industry to think things through and conduct its due diligence on this treaty, it would also be self-evident that LOST will impose severe costs on American oil companies, leaving the consumer stranded at the pump with even higher gasoline prices, after having been led to believe that salvation lies beneath the polar ice.

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