新闻翻译:欧元推出十周年 不负众望
日期:2009-01-03 12:32

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翻译内容:
  Euro currency turns 10; seen as fulfilling promise 
  Ten years ago, Europe launched its grand experiment with a shared currency — and watched it plunge in value before recovering.
  As the anniversary approaches of the Jan. 1, 1999, arrival of the euro, economists say the new currency is finally fulfilling its promise as a way to lower borrowing costs, ease trade and tourism, boost growth and strengthen the European community.examda.com
  And doing it amid a global financial crisis that, for the moment, underlines the safety in numbers that comes from joining one, big currency.
  "After 10 years it has truly created a zone of security and stability," French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said in mid-December. "From all these points of view, the euro has in fact proven wrong the forecasts some made against the euro 10 years ago."
  When it was launched for non-cash purposes in 1999, just 11 countries were on board — Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Notes and coins were added on Jan. 1, 2002, and the original 11 have been joined by Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Slovenia, with Slovakia slated to join on Jan. 1, bringing the total to 16. Now, some people in longtime holdouts such as Sweden and even strongly euro-skeptic Britain are beginning to reconsider the question.
  参考译文:2009年1月1日是欧元的10周年纪念日,十年的时间对一种货币来说并不算长,但它却在短短十年里完成了价格稳定、刺激贸易和投资、整合金融市场以及货币统一的使命。而在金融危机不断恶化、改革全球金融体系呼声空前高涨之时,涉世未久的欧元,其不可忽视的价值得到英国官员认可,英国的重量级人物也对最终加入欧元区的想法表现出更为开放的态度。

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