Gauging the economic impact of the crisis is as difficult as predicting when and where the next cloud of ash will appear.

测量这次危机带来的经济影响如同预测下一次火山灰何时何地出现一样困难。

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It is true that some people forecast that the debt burden of English-speaking consumers would lead to economic calamity, but many of those Jeremiahs had been predicting disaster for a decade or so.

的确有人曾预见到英语消费者的庞大负债会把经济引向灾难，而这些先知们的灾难预报已经持续了近10年。

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The World Bank has issued a report predicting an economic growth slowdown in Asia this year.

世界银行发布了一份报告，预计今年亚洲经济增长将放缓。

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But in this situation, the prophets of economic doom are predicting even worse times ahead.

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But many other analysts are predicting economic growth in the first quarter.

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If there really were such a simple and reliable indicator of future economic conditions, predicting the recession would have been easy, betting on the economy via the stock market would wither and we'd probably see an eyebrow derivatives market.

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