One reason its deficit has risen so quickly is that those revenues have evaporated. They may not return again for some time.

这么快导致亏空的原因是这些税款大大缩水，也许恢复还得需要一段时间。

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Verona of Italy comfortably beat Salonica 96-62 in their semifinal, first leg encounter…surely too great a deficit for the Greeks to make up in the return match next week.

意大利维罗纳队在半决赛第一回合比赛中以96：62轻松击败萨洛尼卡队，希腊人要想在下个星期的回访赛中将比分拉平真是不容易。

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Mr.Obama's budget numbers and deficit projections assume a return to moderate economic growth next year, with robust expansion in the years that follow.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Both Republicans and Democrats have admitted that any economic stimulus plan of this scale will mean a return to deficit spending.

FORBES: Bush's Plan: Too Much, Too Soon

If economic growth does not return, deficit reduction proves too painful or interest rates are much higher than we assume, the debt ratio is likely to spiral upwards until default becomes all but inevitable.

ECONOMIST: Bailing out Greece

The fact of the matter is, all you really need to do to balance the budget and close up the deficit is return defense spending to pre-Bush levels and raise taxes to Clinton-era rates.

FORBES: Paul Ryan��s Very Unserious Budget