He used the parlous public finances as a reason to justify why Italy's fiscal stimulus should be much smaller than in other big countries.

他用了不确定的公共经费来作为原因之一来解释为什么意大利财政刺激的规模应该大大小于比其他大国。

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But there is a sweetener regarding Social Security (state pensions) : any savings made from that programme would go towards shoring up its parlous finances, rather than paying down the deficit.

但是在社会安全(国家养老金)方面倒是有些甜头的：由此项目节约出的任何资金都将用于巩固岌岌可危的财政，而不是为赤字买单。

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By the 15th century Genoa’s finances were in such a parlous state that in 1407 the municipality established a private bank to consolidate its debts and called it the Bank of Saint George.

到了15世纪，热那亚的财政进入了十分危机的境地，因此自治区于1407年建立了一家私人银行以合并债务并将之称为“圣乔治银行”。

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Russia might use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional attack, says Mr Rybkin, in part because its own conventional forces are in so parlous a state.

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