The disruption of European trade during the war had thrown the economy into a tailspin.

战争期间欧洲贸易的中断使经济陷入一片困境。

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In post-war Japan, the economy wasn't doing so great, so you couldn't get everyday-use items like household cleaners.

战后日本的经济状况不太好，因此你买不到像家用清洁剂这样的日常用品。

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Declining mobility has in fact long been a feature of the post-war American economy, thanks to the ageing of its workforce and rising rates of home ownership.

实际上，人口流动性变差早已经成为战后美国经济的一个特征。造成这一现象的原因是劳动力衰老以及房价上涨。

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This year's federal deficit is already predicted to be the highest in relation to the economy since World War Two.

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Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

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Mr. Obama is taking command of a nation at war and an economy in crisis.

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But just as the industrial revolution was built on coal, the post-second-world-war economy was built on cheap oil.

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The contemporary American high school was organized to produce workers for a post-war economy where people would work for the same company their whole lives.

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But they were every bit as good as the private sector in terms of choice and quality - if not far better, particularly after the 1944 Education Act and the founding of the NHS, which offered services and opportunities transformed from the pre-war years within a post-war economy and society governed by rationing, funding constraints, and pervasive low skills and aspirations.

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