VOA标准英语2009-EU Economy Worse Than Predicted
时间：2019-02-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(五月)
Europe has received more bad economic news, with the 27-member European Union announcing the business downturn would be far worse this year than its earlier predictions.
The European Union's economy is expected to shrink by four percent this year - more than twice what was estimated in January. And that is only part of the grim news that was delivered by the European Commission - the bloc 1's executive arm.
Unemployment increasing
People line up to enter a government job center in Madrid, 04 May 2009
Unemployment in the 27-member EU is expected to reach 11.5 percent by 2010 - the highest level since World War II. And as governments invest heavily in economic stimulus 2 plans, their deficits 3 are expected to soar to about 7.5 percent of gross domestic product - more than twice the limit allowed under EU rules.
But EU economic commissioner 4 Joaquin Almunia tried to offer a bright side to the gloomy news he delivered to reporters in Brussels.
"Some positive signals have appeared in the last weeks, including the evolution of the financial markets, improvement in business expectations and some real indicators 5, such as export data in Asia, pointing, all of them, to a stabilization 6 of the economy in the second part of this year and a gradual recovering in 2010," Almunia said.
Situation likely to get worse
But the economic situation is likely to get worse in Europe before it gets better. The European Union predicts the German economy, Europe's largest, is likely to contract by 5.4 percent this year, a larger decline than the EU average. The Latvian economy is expected to be hit even harder, shrinking 13.1 percent in 2009, while Ireland's economy is expected to shrink by nine percent.
The European Union predicts the bloc may begin to slowly recover next year, but only if the banking 7 system and international trade pick up.
- A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
- There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。
- Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
- Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
- The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句
- The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
- He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
- The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
- It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。
- The position of barycentre on plane directly impacts the stabilization and manipulation of plane. 飞机重心位置直接影响飞机的稳定和操纵特性。
- With the higher olefins, stabilization of the energetic intermediates occurs more easily. 在较高的烯烃情况下，高能的中间物稳定作用更易出现。