No wonder, then, that the spectre of the worst recession since the Depression led many to fear another descent into protectionism and a similar decline in trade.

因此自然而然，这次自大萧条以来最严重的衰退使许多人担心，贸易额将再次下降，保护主义又会归来。

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The World Bank expects the fastest contraction of trade since the Depression.

世界银行则预计，自大萧条以来贸易量减速最快。

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In Mexico, where a currency crisis threw the nation into depression shortly after implementation of NAFTA, small business owners were in the street, too, opposing "free trade".

在墨西哥，刚实现加入NAFTA不久，一场货币危机使这个国家陷入经济萧条，小企业所有者举行罢工，反对自由贸易。

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The villains of the Depression were the trade-killing, international-capital-flow-strangling Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an overly tight monetary policy and a catastrophic tax increase.

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Just as the Great Depression of the 1930s gave rise to trade-strangling tariffs and goose-stepping goons, the Asian Crisis and its global repercussions cannot but provide ammunition to protectionists, fascists and other control freaks.

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That period in the 1930s where a prolonged Depression precipitated the high-speed collapse of trade, currency arrangements and international co-operation.

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