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- Obama Administration Seeks Support For Spending
- 欧巴马政府寻求支援增加开支
- Key members of the Obama Administration are trying to rally support for a controversial $3.8 trillion budget.
- 欧巴马政府的主要成员正在寻求支援有争议性的 3.8 兆美元的预算。
- That projects massive deficits, and calls for large spending increases to fight unemployment and improve education.
- 这份预算预计将有大规模财政赤字，并用大幅增加支出来解决失业问题和改善教育。
- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told a Senate committee Tuesday, that Congress and the White House must work together to boost economic growth and create jobs.
- 美国财政部长盖特纳星期二对一个参议院委员会说，国会和白宫必须一起努力来推动经济发展和创造就业。
- The budget published Monday proposes more efforts to cut the 10 percent unemployment rate, including tax incentives intended to help small businesses.
- 星期一发佈的预算提议採取更多措施降低目前 10 % 的失业率，这些措施包括旨在帮助小企业的税收优惠。
- The budget plan projects a record $1.6 trillion deficit this year, and a slightly smaller deficit in the next budget year (which begins October 1).
- 预算预计今年财政赤字将达到 1.6兆美元的歷史最高水準，下一年度的赤字将稍有下降。
- Opposition Republicans are criticizing the Obama budget as wasteful and ineffective.
- 反对党共和党批评欧巴马的预算浪费而且无效用。
- Geithner says once the economic recovery is underway and the employment picture improves, it will be time to attack the deficit.
- 盖特纳说，一旦经济復苏上了轨道，就业状况有所改善，就将着手解决赤字问题。
- He says deficits hurt the economy because they cause interest rates to rise and slow growth.
- 他说，财政赤字有损经济，因為会导致利率上升，经济增长放缓。
- The budget has to win congressional approval before it can become law, a process that could take months.
- 预算必须获得国会批准后才能生效，而这一过程可能需要数个月之久。
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- China Writes Off Most Iraqi Debt
- 中国取消伊拉克大部分债务
- Iraq says China has agreed to cancel 80-percent of the debt Baghdad owes Beijing.
- 伊拉克说，中国同意取消巴格达所欠北京 80 % 的债务。
- The Iraqi finance ministry says Iraq owes China $8.5 billion.
- 伊拉克财政部说，伊拉克欠中国 85 亿美元。
- It says the debt agreement was reached after talks between top Iraqi and Chinese officials.
- 伊拉克和中国官员举行会谈后达成这项减免债务协议。
- China did not provide specific figures.
- 中国方面没有提供具体数字。
- But a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman told the French press agency that a deal was reached to, in his words, "substantially cancel" the Iraqi debt.
- 但是中国外交部发言人对法新社说，双方达成“大幅度取消”伊拉克债务的协议；这项协议将进一步促进在伊拉克的中国商业利益。
- The agreement could further boost China's business interests in Iraq. The state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation has secured some of the biggest deals in the Iraqi oil sector since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
- 自从美国领导的盟军 2003 年入侵伊拉克，推翻萨达姆‧候赛因政权以来，中国国营公司中石油获得伊拉克石油行业一些最大的合同。
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