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Will The EU Make It?
2011 T4
1 Will the European Union make it? The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a “Bermuda triangle” of debt, population decline and lower growth.
2 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.
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.
本句中主干部分的主语为Markets，谓语是 have lost，宾语是faith，
后接that引导的同位语从句，对faith的内容进行解释说明。
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.
该同位语从句中，主语是the euro zone’s economies，谓语是converge;
插入语weaker or stronger用于对主语economies进行补充说明，
谓语前的one day是时间状语，谓语后的thanks to…是原因状语，分别说明了converge的时间和原因;
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.
原因状语中的介词短语of sharing a single currency做后置定语修饰discipline。
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.
该同位语从句中还包含一个由which 引导的非限定性定语从句，修饰先行词discipline
在该定语从句中，关系代词which是主语，指代discipline，谓语部分运用了deny sb. sth.这一结构，意为“拒绝某人的某要求”。
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.
市场已经失去信心，不再相信：欧元区的经济体，无论强弱，终有一天都会因遵循使用统一货币——这可以阻止缺乏竞争力的成员国利用货币贬值快速解决经济问题——而走向融合。
3 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.
4 Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrowing, 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 fights in EU ministerial councils.
It insists that economic co-ordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club, among whom there is a small majority for free – market liberalism and economic rigour; in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French interference.
5 A “southern” camp headed by France wants something different: “European economic government” within an inner core of euro-zone members.
Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.
Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.
【难点分析】translated这里不能译为“翻译”，而是“转换，换句话说”。
本句只有一个简单句，其中translated是状语（状语一般以逗号隔开）；
Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.
that是代词做主语；means是谓语动词；politicians为宾语。intervening到句子结束看作是定语；
其中intervening为逻辑谓语，其逻辑宾语为policy和system两个词；
Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.
而system之后的of redistribution from richer to poorer members看作其逻辑上的定语；via和through引导的短语为其方式状语，所以system一处的译文比较复杂，翻译出来system一词应该是在最后面。
Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.
【参考译文】换句话说，这意味着政客可以干预货币政策，以及通过普通欧元债券或完整的财政转移的方式进行低利息的政府借贷来干预贫富成员国之间的再分配体制。
Finally, figures close to the French government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization: e. g. , curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.
6 It is too soon to write off the EU. It remains the world’s largest trading block. At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area.
It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.
36、 The EU is faced with so many problems that ________________.
A. it has more or less lost faith in markets
B. even its supporters begin to feel concerned
C. some of its member countries plan to abandon euro
D. it intends to deny the possibility of devaluation
参考答案：B
37、The debate over the EU’s single currency is stuck because the dominant powers ________________.
A. are competing for the leading position
B. are busy handling their own crises
C. fail to reach an agreement on harmonization
D. disagree on the steps towards disintegration
参考答案：C
38、To solve the euro problem, Germany proposed that ________________.
A. EU funds for poor regions be increased
B. stricter regulations be imposed
C. only core members be involved in economic co-ordination
D. voting fights of the EU members be guaranteed
参考答案：B
39、The French proposal of handling the crisis implies that ________________.
A. poor countries are more likely to get funds
B. strict monetary policy will be applied to poor countries
C. loans will be readily available to rich countries
D. rich countries will basically control Eurobonds
参考答案：A
40、Regarding the future of the EU, the author seems to feel________________.
A. pessimistic
B. desperate
C. conceited
D. hopeful
参考答案：D
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