考研英語（二）歷年真題閱讀要點(diǎn)之2011-Text 4（一）

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　　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“達(dá)到預(yù)定目標(biāo)，成功”;cheerleader“拉拉隊(duì)隊(duì)員”;talk of“談到，論及”;continent“大陸”;debt“債務(wù)”;population decline“人口減少”;lower growth“低增長”。

　　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“長期的”;acute“嚴(yán)重的”;crisis“危機(jī)”，economic crisis“經(jīng)濟(jì)危機(jī)”;core“核心”;single“單一的”;currency“貨幣”，current“當(dāng)前的，通用的”;lose faith“不再相信”;euro zone“歐元區(qū)”;converge“匯集”;deny“拒絕給予”;uncompetitive“無競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力的”;quick fix“權(quán)宜之計(jì)”;devaluation“貨幣貶值”。

　　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“爭(zhēng)論”;save...from...“保護(hù)...免于...”;disintegration“瓦解，崩潰”;stuck“難住的，無法進(jìn)行的”，可以指“陷入僵局”;dominant“主導(dǎo)的，支配的”;agree on“對(duì)...意見一致”;harmonization“和諧”，動(dòng)詞形式harmonise;disagree about“對(duì)...意見不一”。

　　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“嚴(yán)格的規(guī)則”;competitiveness“競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力”;be backed by“得到...的支持”;quasi-automatic“準(zhǔn)自動(dòng)的”;sanction“制裁，處罰”;obey“服從”;threat“威脅”;freeze“凍結(jié)”;fund“資金”;mega-project“大型項(xiàng)目”;suspension“暫停”;voting right“投票權(quán)”;ministerial“部長的，內(nèi)閣的”;council“委員會(huì)，理事會(huì)”。