The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are the globe's firefighters -- taken for granted until they're desperately needed, as they are now.

国际货币基金和世界银行是全球的消防员 ，这是理所当然的。 正像眼下，全球都对他们的需求都显得格外迫切。

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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are the globe's firefighters — taken for granted until they're desperately needed as they are now.

国际货币基金和世界银行是全球的消防员，这是理所当然的。正像眼下，全球都对他们的需求都显得格外迫切。

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But most have to scrape by on "zilch" or, at most, on a fraction of what is taken for granted in the for-profit world.

但大多数都只能白手起家，最好的也不过是以普通营利组织的一小部分来惨淡经营。

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The bottom line: Globalization cannot be taken for granted, especially in a slow-growing world burdened with debt and old and new animosities that undermine domestic and international trade.

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