The economic gap between America and a rising Asia has certainly narrowed; but worrying about it is wrong for two reasons.

当然，美国和崛起的亚洲之间的经济差距已经缩小。

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The economic gap between the western and eastern regions in Shandong province has become a serious barrier for its whole economy reaching a new stage.

山东省西部地区与东部地区的经济差距已成为全省经济整体水平再上新台阶的严重障碍。

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Unsurprisingly, the top professional classes have been moving themselves and their families into private schools, private health-care systems and holidays abroad, thus widening the socio-economic gap.

上流职业阶层及其家庭正逐渐转向私立学校、私人保健系统和海外度假，从而导致更大的社会经济差距，这类现象也就不足为奇了。

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News of the widening trade gap, along with several other gloomy economic reports, contributed to a 2.5 - percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday.

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"One of the things that everybody here is mindful of is that as we move forward dealing with this extraordinary economic crisis, we also have a deficit, a confidence gap when it comes to the American people.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

There is not just a massive economic gap in Europe.

BBC: Stark choices for Europe

With each passing year, the socio-economic gap widens.

ECONOMIST: A tale of two Mexicos

Danuta Hubner, the Polish government's representative at the convention, says her country regards the ability to set its own taxes as a necessary tool in its bid to close the economic gap with western Europe.

ECONOMIST: The European Union's convention