But getting wages and prices to fall is tough: nobody wants to be the first to take a pay cut, especially without some assurance that prices will come down, too.

但是，让工资和价格下降是非常困难的事情：谁也不愿第一个削减工资，特别是对价格同时下降并无把握的情况下。

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The public sector has not yet had to cut jobs, and pay has been held down in the private sector.

公共部门还无需裁员以及私营部门削减了工资。

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The point of the project, which should be completed by 2014, is to allow Nepal to participate in international carbon-trading schemes that pay poor countries with lots of trees not to cut them down.

截止到2014年应该完成的这个项目的意义在于允许尼泊尔参与支付给多树的贫穷国家不砍伐树木的国际碳交易计划。

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And nobody knows, nobody believes that we can cut spending, right? -Somebody down the road has to pay the bills Somebody down the road has to pay the bills, either by cutting spending, cutting benefits or raising taxes.

而几乎没人相信,政府能够成功节流，不是吗？，-那总得,有人来埋单啊,迟早要有人来为此埋单的，要么精简政府开支，削减福利，要么增税。

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This means that the government needs to cut spending and it needs to pay down the debt.

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The public sector has not yet had to cut jobs, and pay has been held down in the private sector.

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