Papandreou先生随后改变了他的思路，并发表声明说，希腊现在已经采取了痛苦的但是是必要的措施来满足欧盟的要求，以期从其他欧盟成员国中获得帮助，但是没有指出将会采取什么样的形式。

MrPapandreou claimed that Greece had now taken enough “painful butnecessary measures” to qualify for support from its European partners, but without specifying what form that might take.

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他不顾自己的痛苦采取了行动——这是一个乐观主义者的典型反应。

He took action despite his own pain—a typical response of an optimist.

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勿需我多言，一样的痛苦促使人们采取了这两种态度。

I hardly need to say that the same anguish urges man to these two attitudes.

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