CNN News:美国债务上限谈判迎来生死时速

Economics, the food supply, the Olympics-all subjects covered this Monday on CNN STUDENTNEWS.

经济、食品供应、奥运会—周一的CNN学生新闻将为您带来这些。

I'm Carl Azuz.

我是卡尔·阿祖兹。

Welcome to the show.

欢迎收看CNN学生新闻。

First up, U.S. unemployment and jobs numbers.

首先我们关注美国的失业率和就业数据。

The government usually releases this info on the first Friday of every month.

政府通常在每个月的第一个周五公布这一信息。

It's important, because it can indicatedhow the economy is doing.

这一数字至关重要,因为它可以展现经济状况如何。

Latest numbers are a mixed bag.

而最新公布的数字则是好坏参半。

On one hand, the unemployment rate ticked down one tenths of a percentage point to 6.6percent in January.

一方面,失业率在1月份略微下降0.1个百分点到了6.6%。

That's the lowest it's been in five years.

这是5年来最低的数字。

But it only measure people who are actively looking for jobs, and many Americans have givenup.

但这只是计算积极找工作人们的数字,而许多美国人已经放弃了。

The economy added 113,000 jobs in January, economists call that weak.

1月份的经济增加了113000个工作岗位,经济学家称之为微弱。

They were expecting 178,000.

他们所期待的是178000个。

The United States national debt is $17.3 trillion and counting.

美国国家债务是17.3万亿美元，而且还在增长。

It's the highest level of any country in the world.

这是世界上任何一个国家的最高水平。

The debt limit, or ceiling was created during World War I.

债务上限是在一战期间问世。

It was intended to limit how much the government spent.

它的目的是为了限制政府开销。

But Congress has always raised it when it was hit.

但国会一直在提升债务上限。

And now that we've hit it again, that's what Congress is expected to do again.

现在我们再次触碰到了它，而这是国会预计将再一次做的事情。

It's back in town, the debt limits circus.

美国政府现在开始着手应对债务上限问题。

But the juggling isn't the conventional kind you might find in the big top.

但在不是传统的那种你可能感觉头大的问题。

This juggling uses special accounting rules and billions of dollars.

它使用特殊的记账规则并且包含数十亿美元。

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has some experience juggling.

财政部长杰克·刘伊对此有些经验。

In fact, he's a pretty good juggler, after all.

事实上, 毕竟他曾经精于此道。

He had to do this last fall.

去年秋天,他就不得不这样做。

But like the movie "Groundhog Day", we're back at the same place.

但就像电影《土拨鼠日》一样,我们是在同一个地方。

Effectively, the Treasury can't borrow more money to run the country, because we've reachedthe legal debt limit.

实际上,财政部不能借太多的钱来管理这个国家,因为我们已经达到了法定债务上限。

That's right. To run the country, we have to borrow some money to do everything we'vepromised.

这千真万确。为了管理国家,我们要借一些钱来履行我们的承诺。

Lew now has to use accounting tricks to keep the U.S. solvent, but he can't do it for very long.

刘伊现在必须使用会计手段来维持美国偿还债务的能力,但他不能做很长时间。

He's already warned that if a deal isn't done by the end of the month, America risks a defaulton some of its obligations.

他已经警告称如果月底不达成协议,美国将会承担违约风险。

And the smart money bets, Congress comes up with the deal in the next few weeks that weavoid a market meltdown, a global panic, spiking interest rates.

而精明的投资者会押注,国会会在未来几周内提出该议案,以避免市场崩溃,全球恐慌,及利率飙升。

House Speaker John Boehner already saying that even getting close to a default isn't anoption this time.

众议院议长约翰·博纳已经表示这次甚至接近都不是可行的解决办法。

And after last fall's government shutdown, Republicans and Democrats don't seem to havemuch stomach for a standoff.

在去年秋天政府关闭之后,共和党和民主党似乎没有太多对峙出现。

So, the juggling has begun for now and investors can watch Jack Lew pull off more daringmoves to buy time to keep the U.S. from fiscal freefall until Congress gets a budget deal, butit needs a deal soon.

如此,在目前已经开始,投资者可以看到杰克完成更多的大胆举动阻止美国财政上的自由落体,直到国会预算协议,但它需要尽快达成协议。

Christine Romans, CNN, New York.

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