If the Dreamliner starts rolling off the production line towards the end of this year, as Boeing promises, it will be billions over budget and three years behind schedule.

如果梦幻客机在今年年底开始投入生产线，就像波音承诺的那样，将会超过预算数十亿美元，而且比计划晚三年时间完成。

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He says it would be "premature" to talk about the budget for the movie, which could be several years off.

他说现在谈电影的预算是“不成熟”的，这可能需要好几年的时间。

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AMERICA's infamous debt clock, near New York's Times Square, was switched off in 2000 after the national burden started to fall thanks to several years of Clinton-era budget restraint.

美国纽约时代广场旁伫立着声名狼藉的债务钟。2000年，得益于克林顿时代多年的预算限制，全国的债务状况开始好转，债务钟于是被关掉了。

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Worse trouble has been staved off by seven years of budget restraint, large foreign-exchange reserves and a hefty overseas investment portfolio.

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And, since they did not have vast deficits to swallow up the early windfalls of the boom (all but Vermont have balanced-budget requirements), the governors have been pulling off an impressive feat for years: cutting taxes while increasing both spending and surpluses.

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AMERICA'S infamous debt clock, near New York's Times Square, was switched off in 2000 after the national burden started to fall thanks to several years of Clinton-era budget restraint.

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