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1.Clinton has strongly defended those practices and blamed excesses on the money-gobbling U.S. political system, which he says is “out of whack”.

【我的翻譯】克林頓堅決捍衛(wèi)這些做法并且指責(zé)美國政治制中“吃錢”的越軌行為，他稱這是“不正?！钡默F(xiàn)象。

2.標(biāo)題Clinton Shows Weakness Among His Own Generation

【我的翻譯】克林頓在同齡人中處于劣勢

3.So far, 51 trade complaints have been lodged with WTO. That’s almost one-third the number of disputes handled by the WTO’s predecessor, The General Agreement on Tariff and Trade in its half century of existence.

【我的翻譯】到目前為止，已經(jīng)有51起貿(mào)申訴提交到了世貿(mào)組織。這幾乎達(dá)到世貿(mào)組織的前身關(guān)貿(mào)總協(xié)定在其半個世紀(jì)內(nèi)所處理的經(jīng)濟(jì)爭端的三分之一。

4.At the other extreme will be specialists that survive by doing one thing either very cheaply or exceptionally well.

By offering lower prices or better services, specialists will discipline the financial supermarkets.

【我的翻譯】另一個極端是因?yàn)樽鍪铝畠r或者非常出色而生存下來的專家。通過提供更低的價格或更好的服務(wù)，專家們將約束金融超市。

5.West Germany’s Volkswagen and other manufacturers are well entrenched and have been able to get protective barriers against possible Japanese competition.

【我的翻譯】西德的大眾和其他廠商已經(jīng)是根深葉茂，有能力抵擋日本的潛在競爭。

6.The Gen. Eric Shinseke is depicted as a by-the-book and overly cautious officer during his tour in Bosnia.

【我的翻譯】在訪問波斯尼亞期間，埃里克將軍被刻畫成一個照章辦事和過于謹(jǐn)慎的軍官。

7.The primary currency of the SALT negotiations became limit on the number of launchers, not limits on missiles or their characteristics.

【我的翻譯】戰(zhàn)略武器限制公約談判得出的主要一致意見是限制發(fā)射器的數(shù)量，而不是限制導(dǎo)彈的數(shù)量或特性。

8.Allied jets were able to destroy “few, if any, mobile launchers” of scud missiles fired by Iraq at Saudi Arabia and Israel during the conflict.

【我的翻譯】在這場戰(zhàn)斗中，伊拉克向沙特阿拉伯和以色列發(fā)射導(dǎo)彈。盟軍的飛機(jī)除了偶爾毀掉幾個發(fā)射器，什么也打不中。

9.The most savvy companies realize that it will help them to discover new customers, writing more revenue out of existing ones, and lower financing costs.

【我的翻譯】最精明的公司意識到夸大收益和降低融資成本有利于他們發(fā)現(xiàn)新客戶。

10.So big is the capital-spending boom that Japanese Companies’ outlays in Japan topped American Companies domestic outlay by $521.4 billion to $494.8 billion in the months ended March 13 even through Japan total output of goods and services is less than two-third America’s.

【我的翻譯】日本資本支出不斷激增，在截至3月13日的幾個月內(nèi)，日本公司的國內(nèi)支出以5214億美元的數(shù)額超過了美國公司4948億美元的國內(nèi)支出，雖然日本的商品和服務(wù)總輸出還達(dá)不到美國的2/3。