Will the European Union make it? ... Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a “Bermuda triangle” of debt, population decline and lower growth.
make it“达到预定目标，成功”；cheerleader“拉拉队队员”；talk of“谈到，论及”；continent“大陆”；debt“债务”；population decline“人口减少”；lower growth“低增长”。
As well as those chronic problems, the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency. Markets have lost faith that the euro zone’s economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.
chronic“长期的”；acute“严重的”；crisis“危机”，economic crisis“经济危机”；core“核心”；single“单一的”；currency“货币”，current“当前的，通用的”；lose faith“不再相信”；euro zone“欧元区”；converge“汇集”；deny“拒绝给予”；uncompetitive“无竞争力的”；quick fix“权宜之计”；devaluation“货币贬值”。
Yet the debate about how to save Europe’s single currency from disintegration is stuck. It is stuck because the euro zone’s dominant powers, France and Germany, agree on the need for greater harmonization within the euro zone, but disagree about what to harmonise.
debate“争论”；save...from...“保护...免于...”；disintegration“瓦解，崩溃”；stuck“难住的，无法进行的”，可以指“陷入僵局”；dominant“主导的，支配的”；agree on“对...意见一致”；harmonization“和谐”，动词形式harmonise；disagree about“对...意见不一”。
Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrow, spending and competitiveness, backed by quasi-automatic sanctions for governments that do not obey. These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects and even the suspension of a country’s voting rights in EU ministerial councils...
strict rule“严格的规则”；competitiveness“竞争力”；be backed by“得到...的支持”；quasi-automatic“准自动的”；sanction“制裁，处罚”；obey“服从”；threat“威胁”；freeze“冻结”；fund“资金”；mega-project“大型项目”；suspension“暂停”；voting right“投票权”；ministerial“部长的，内阁的”；council“委员会，理事会”。
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