That decline is already helping to shrink America's external deficit.

这个下降已经帮助美国减少其外部（国际收支平衡）赤字。

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The US is proposing policy measures that will increase its external deficit.

美国正推行的政策手段将增加其外部赤字。

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For the external deficit countries, the concern is how to lower fiscal deficits without tipping their economies back into recession.

对于拥有对外赤字的国家，它们的担忧在于如何降低财政赤字，而不至让本国经济再次陷入衰退。

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Now, that support for the external deficit and the dollar has been taken away.

ECONOMIST: Currencies

Foreign central banks financed the remainder of our external deficit by also piling up dollar reserves.

FORBES: No Greenback Crash

In time, those adjustments should cut both the U.S. external deficit and China's surplus.

FORBES: Geithner's Risky Remark