考研英語美文賞讀：特朗普的繁榮能持久嗎？

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►The American economy：Can the Trump boom last?

美國經濟：特朗普的繁榮能持久嗎?

America's president is not the architect of American strength.But in the short term， things will go his way.

特朗普不是美國增長的造就者。但是，短期內，事態是被限定在走他的路上面的。

There is often more fakery than truth in a tweet from President Donald Trump.

特朗普的推文中經常是假的多于真的。

But on one subject he is broadly right.

但是，在一個問題上，他總的來說是對的。

America's economy is in good shape.

美國經濟事態良好。

Business confidence is high.

商業信心高亢。

Jobs are plentiful.

就業崗位充裕。

Last month non-farm companies added 228000 workers to their payrolls.

上個月，非農公司給它們的工資單上增加了228000名工人。

The unemployment rate is 4.1%，the lowest figure for more than a decade.

失業率是4.1%，為十多年來的最低數字。

The availability of jobs is drawing more of the working-age population into the labour force.

工作之可得正在吸引越來越多的勞動適齡人口加入勞動大軍。

Wages are growing in real terms with some of the biggest gains going to low-paid workers.

按照實際水平計算，工資正在增長，其中最大的所得流向了低工資工人。

Mr Trump over-eggs things，of course.

特朗普當然是要反復吹噓啦。

He claims each good jobs report and each new peak in the S&P 500 as his own achievement.

他聲稱，每一份靚麗的就業報告和標普500的每一次新高都是他的功勞。

In fact，he was lucky in his inheritance.

事實上，在遺產方面，他是幸運的。

The market has risen by 25% since his election，but is up by 195% since 2009.

自他當選以來，市場上漲了25%，但是自2009年以來上漲了195%。

The unemployment rate fell from a peak of 10% to 4.7% under Barack Obama and then to 4.1% on Mr Trump's watch.

在奧巴馬治下，失業率從高峰時的10%降到了4.7%。之后，在特朗普監護中，又降到了4.1%。

His administration says that a mix of deregulation and corporate-tax cuts will spur sustained GDP growth of 3%，well above the 2% average of recent years.

他的政府表示，去監管和消減企業稅的結合將激發出持續的3%的GDP增長，遠遠高于這幾年2%的平均水平。

As the economy approaches full employment，an astonishing pickup in productivity would be needed to accomplish that.

隨著經濟接近完全就業，為了實現這一目標，生產力方面某種令人吃驚的改善是事所必需的了。

But Trump-bashers overstate their case,too.

但是，特朗普的批評者也是言過其實了。

They dismiss the optimism of consumers and bosses as sentiment，not substance.

他們不把消費者和雇主的樂觀當回事，認為那不過是一種情緒而已，并非是實實在在的。

They warn that the stockmarket is dangerously overvalued and that America's expansion，which is in its 102nd month，must soon falter.

他們警告說，股市被危險地高估了，正處于第102個月之中的美國擴張不久必將舉步維艱。

Yet the economy is not in immediate danger.

然而，經濟體并非處于迫在眉睫的危險之中。

And the maturity of the business cycle cuts both ways.

而且，商業周期的成熟把這兩種情況都排除了。

It makes a nonsense of Mr Trump's claims to be the author of American economic success.

特朗普有關他是美國經濟成功造就者的說法純屬胡說八道。

But the economy is also capable of some welcome surprises.

但是，經濟體出現某些受歡迎的驚喜也是有可能的。

America is not the only economy doing well.

美國不是唯一運轉良好的經濟體。

For about a year，a synchronised global expansion，taking in Europe，Asia and the Americas，has been under way.

一年來，發生在歐洲、亞洲和美洲的某種步調一致的全球擴張一直都在進行之中。

GDP growth in the euro zone，a region until recently synonymous with economic misery，is around 2.5%，despite slower population growth than America's.

在直到最近都是經濟窘境代名詞的歐元區，GDP增長在2.5%左右，盡管其人口增長慢于美國。

But America stands out because of where it is in the cycle.

但是，美國的一枝獨秀是因為她正處于擴張周期中。

If it continues in 2018，this expansion will become the country's second-longest ever.

倘若這一周期在2018年繼續下去，這次的擴張將成為該國史上的第二長時間擴張。

True，there are perils.

誠然，風險是存在的。

As the business cycle matures，there is more chance that the economy will overheat，because of bottlenecks in the jobs market;

隨著商業周期走到頭，由于就業市場的瓶頸，經濟將會過熱的可能性越來越大;

or that the central bank overtightens in order to prevent things from running too hot.

為防止事態過熱，央行過度收緊的可能性也越來越大。

The longer the economy keeps growing，moreover，the more scope there is for financial imbalances，such as excess debt or frothy asset prices， to build up.

經濟體越長時間地保持增長，過度債務或者是泡沫化的資產價格等金融失衡逐步累積的空間就越大。

Some warning signals are flashing.

一些警示信號正在閃爍。

The gap between long-term and short-term interest rates has narrowed，as it tends to before recessions.

長短利率差已經如其在危機之前常常好出現的那樣縮小。

Yet the evidence for overheating is thin.

然而，過熱的證據是貧乏的。

Inflation has trended lower this year.

今年以來，通脹一路走低。

Wage growth has picked up a little，thankfully，but shows few signs of accelerating.

好在工資增長有所抬頭，但沒有顯現出多少加速的跡象。

Pay would have to increase by quite a lot more before rising inflation is a real worry.

工資支付不得不在日漸上升的通脹之前大幅增長是一個確切的擔憂。

1.interest rates 利率

例句：High interest rates have stunted economic growth.

高利率已經阻礙了經濟的增長。

2.picked up 撿起;收拾

例句：I picked up the phone book and glanced through it.

我拿起電話簿，匆匆掃了一遍。

3.Wage growth 工資增長

例句：Wage growth is moderate everywhere，in spite of tight labour markets.

盡管勞動力市場供應緊張，但全球各國的工資增長頗為溫和。

4.in order to 為了

例句：In order to transform their environment，he drew up the project with painstaking accuracy.

為了改造環境，他苦心孤詣地制訂了這個計劃。