寅吃卯粮

[yín chī mǎo liáng]

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AllAll,eat next year's food,eat one's corn in the bladeeat one's corn in the blade,deficit spendingdeficit spending,Forced to borrow today’s food against tomorrow’s incomeForced to borrow today’s food against tomorrow’s income
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1.
Same can be said about our model. We're living way beyond our means, but no one wants to say the empire has no cloths.
我们的模式也一样。我们寅吃卯粮地过日子，但就是没有人想指出皇帝没有穿衣服。
wǒ men de mó shì yě yí yàng 。 wǒ men yín chī mǎo liáng de guò rì zi , dàn jiù shì méi yǒu rén xiǎng zhǐ chū huáng dì méi yǒu chuān yī fu 。
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2.
But a bailout harms the citizens of these other countries, who did not live beyond their means.
但援助对其他国家尚未寅吃卯粮的国民有害。
dàn yuán zhù duì qí tā guó jiā shàng wèi yín chī mǎo liáng de guó mín yǒu hài 。
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3.
AMERICA, Britain and China are among the many countries that have adopted spend-now-pay-later policies to stave off economic disaster.
美国、英国及中国等许多国家为了躲避经济灾难都采取了“寅吃卯粮”的政策。
měi guó 、 yīng guó jí zhōng guó děng xǔ duō guó jiā wèi le duǒ bì jīng jì zāi nàn dōu cǎi qǔ le " yín chī mǎo liáng " de zhèng cè 。
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4.
Another watershed was the legal-tender act under Abraham Lincoln, which paved the way for an acceptance of deficit spending.
另一个分水岭是亚伯拉罕•林肯的法定货币法案，正是这个法案铺平了赞同政府寅吃卯粮的道路。
lìng yī gè fēn shuǐ lǐng shì yà bó lā hǎn • lín kěn de fǎ dìng huò bì fǎ àn , zhèng shì zhè ge fǎ àn pū píng le zàn tóng zhèng fǔ yín chī mǎo liáng de dào lù 。
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5.
Americans' spending on deficit only helped maintain the seeming balance between the consumption and overproduction .
而美国的“寅吃卯粮”则使这种过剩维持了表面的平衡。
ér měi guó de " yín chī mǎo liáng " zé shǐ zhè zhǒng guò shèng wéi chí le biǎo miàn de píng héng 。
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6.
Second, it would discourage the US government from deficit spending and prevent skyrocketing government debts.
第二，这将劝阻美国政府寅吃卯粮，防止政府债务猛增。
dì èr , zhè jiāng quàn zǔ měi guó zhèng fǔ yín chī mǎo liáng , fáng zhǐ zhèng fǔ zhài wù měng zēng 。
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7.
US households cannot continue to spend more than their income as they have in recent years, even if the credit crunch eases.
即使信贷紧缩有所缓和，美国家庭也不能再像近些年那样寅吃卯粮。
jí shǐ xìn dài jǐn suō yǒu suǒ huǎn hé , měi guó jiā tíng yě bù néng zài xiàng jìn xiē nián nà yàng yín chī mǎo liáng 。
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8.
Some observers guessed this might refer to Americans' habit of living beyond their means and demanding that their government do likewise.
一些观察家推测，这可能是指美国人寅吃卯粮并要求政府也一样照做的习惯。
yì xiē guān chá jiā tuī cè , zhè kě néng shì zhǐ měi guó rén yín chī mǎo liáng bìng yāo qiú zhèng fǔ yě yí yàng zhào zuò de xí guàn 。
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9.
"Nobody, no individual or country, can indefinitely spend more than she or he earns, " he told the National Assembly in August.
今年八月，RaúlCastro告诉国民议会「没有任何个人或国家，可以毫无节制地寅吃卯粮，入不敷出。」
jīn nián bā yuè , Ra ú lCastro gào su guó mín yì huì 「 méi yǒu rèn hé gè rén huò guó jiā , kě yǐ háo wú jié zhì de yín chī mǎo liáng , rù bù fū chū 。 」
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10.
The main relief for the middle class is that many of its members have jobs in the public sector, which can resort to deficit spending.
对他们来说，可以松一口气的是，该阶层的人多在公共部门供职，实在不行寅吃卯粮也行。
duì tā men lái shuō , kě yǐ sōng yì kǒu qì de shì , gāi jiē céng de rén duō zài gōng gòng bù mén gòng zhí , shí zài bù xíng yín chī mǎo liáng yě xíng 。
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