2014年下半年商务英语阅读理解长句汇总（2）

　　Unit 2

　　1.Financial institutions that had seemed as solid as granite disappeared as if they were no more substantial than a bunch of flowers in the hands of an old-style magician.

　　原本坚如磐石的金融机构也消失了，似乎还不如老套的魔术师变的花束看起来真实。

　　2.As billions of poor people become more prosperous, they will be able to afford the comforts their counterparts in the rich world have long considered the normal appurtenances of life.

　　随着几十亿的贫苦人们开始变得富有起来，他们也将能够支付得起发达国家的人们所拥有过的享受，而这些享受长久以来在富人们眼中仅仅是普通的生活附属品而已。

　　3.The world is in a much better state than many expected it would be a year ago.

　　现在世界的状况比一年前我们所想象的要好的多。

　　4.Though Europe is wheezing under cascading sovereign-debt crises, it has so far avoided the worst-case scenarios — a collapse of the euro, a debt crisis that spills from small economies such as Greece and Ireland to much bigger ones like Italy and Spain, and bitter social unrest in those nations that are having to massage wages down while cutting public budgets。

　　尽管欧洲一直在一重接一重的主权外债危机下苟延残喘，但是它到目前为止已经避免了最糟糕的状况——欧元崩溃、债务危机从希腊和爱尔兰这样小的经济体蔓延到意大利和西班牙这样大得多的经济体，以及一些国家剧烈的社会骚乱，这些国家在缩减公共预算的同时不得不减少薪资。

　　5.Most economists expect the rebound to flatten out in 2011, with growth likely to be lower than in 2010. In mid-January, the World Bank estimated global GDP growth will slow to 3.3% in 2011 from 3.9% in 2010.

　　大多数经济学家预计2011年经济反弹会逐渐变平，经济增长也可能会低于2010年。一月中旬，世界银行估测全球GDP增长将由2010年的3.9%下降到2011年的3.3%。

　　6.In Britain, deep cuts in the budget mandated by Prime Minister David Cameron will most likely cost hundreds of thousands of public-sector jobs. In the U.S., the miserable condition of state and local governments' budgets is likewise leading to a job-killing retrenchment. Europe's imposition of austerity has led to heightened political conflict. Ballooning debts and feeble growth prospects for the advanced economies are reordering the investor's perception of risk.

　　在英国，首相戴维·卡梅伦大幅削减预算很可能会导致几十万人失业。在美国，国家和地方政府糟糕的预算同样也会导致工作岗位的紧缩。欧洲采取的财政紧缩政策也加剧了政治冲突。日渐高筑的债台以及发达经济体的疲软经济增长前景让投资者们开始重新审视风险。