债务负担不是一个绝对量，而取决于负债和GDP之间的比例。

The debt burden is not an absolute amount but a ratio between the debt and the GDP.

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伦敦商学院的安德鲁·斯科特(Andrew Scott)指出，英国的债务负担占国民生产总值(gnp)的比例由1918年的121%上升至1932年的191%，直到1960年才返回到1918年的水平。

Andrew Scott of the London Business School points out that Britain's debt burden rose from 121% of GNP in 1918 to 191% in 1932 and did not return to its 1918 level until 1960.

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因为他们的债务负担实在是太大了，远远高于欧元区国家所规定的财政赤字不得超过其GDP3%的警戒线：2009年葡萄牙的财政赤字是其GDP的9.3%；爱尔兰的这一比例则高达11.7%；而西班牙则是11.4%。

The debt burden is simply too great, well above the euro-area limit of 3 percent of GDP: Portugal’s 2009 budget deficit was 9.3 percent; Ireland’s was 11.7 percent; and Spain’s was 11.4 percent.

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