America's economy is so large, and foreign appetite for greenbacks so voracious, that it seems inconceivable that it could suffer a fate similar to that of Portugal or Greece.

考虑到美国如此庞大的经济规模，以及国外对美元如此贪婪的胃口，似乎很难想象美国会遭受葡萄牙和希腊类似的命运。

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While Greece is not a particularly large economy, it has borrowed such large sums that a default might send a wave of damage through Banks in many other nations.

尽管希腊本身并不是一个特别大型的经济体，它所借贷的款额却是庞大，一旦违约，可能波及许多国家的银行，造成一波巨大的损失。

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But GDP in Greece has crashed under the weight of austerity; Ireland has yet to emerge convincingly from a deep recession; and Spain's economy is barely growing.

但是希腊的GDP却在紧缩的重压下崩溃了；爱尔兰尚未令人信服地从大萧条中走出；西班牙的经济几乎停止了增长。

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And Greece's public debt is equal to at least one hundred fifteen percent of its economy.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Greece represents less than three percent of the euro area economy.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

While its economy is in much better shape than that of Greece, many Germans seem to agree that austerity is needed.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

We thus manage to avoid loading the Cypriot Government with yet more debt which will, under the current plan, inevitably mean that the economy goes the way of Greece or Spain in the near future.

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The question is, where is the leadership that will make it happen before credit costs are so high, a major economy like Italy defaults instead of Greece.

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The Spanish economy is much bigger than those of Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined.

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