美国消费者信心指数已经跌至28年来最低，意味着消费支出降低，这又会刺激企业进一步削减成本，控制工资上升。

America's consumer-confidence index has fallen to a 28-year low, which suggests that consumer spending will fall. This, in turn, will spur firms to cut costs and limit pay rises.

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这样一来，人们就希望，一贯谨慎的德国公司和消费者能够尽快地消费，从而刺激赤字国家其软弱的需求。

So the hope had been that weaker demand in deficit countries would be offset by faster spending from hitherto prudent German firms and consumers.

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然而，无论财政刺激方案发放多少补助到消费者口袋，担心被裁员的劳工还是不可能消费。

But workers who worry about being laid off are unlikely to go spend, regardless of how much money fiscal stimulus puts in their pockets.

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