十年前的土耳其国力衰弱，国民经济僵化失常，银行破产，通货膨胀率高的出奇。
Ten years ago it was a basket-case. Its economy was both sclerotic and erratic, its banks were bust, and inflation was dizzyingly high.
一年以前，本轮经济复苏刚刚开始，失业率持续接近于10%，令人怀疑美国是不是遭遇了20世纪80年代欧洲大陆遭遇过的经济僵化。
More than a year into the current economic recovery the unemployment rate remains stuck close to 10%, raising concerns about the kind of sclerosis that continental Europe suffered in the 1980s.
该经济体由于公共开支和私有垄断而变得僵化。
The economy was hidebound by public spending and private monopolies.
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