When the building stops, he says, the cycle by which construction fuels consumption, and vice versa, could be inverted: “the virtuous cycle becomes a vicious one.”

他称，当“建造热”降温时，原本建筑业带动消费、反之消费再促进(或翻译为"反哺"更好)建筑业的这种循环可能就会被颠覆，结果是“过去的良性循环成为了恶性循环。”

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That means, pessimists fear, that African countries may fail to navigate the virtuous cycle of industrialisation, growing employment, increasing productivity and prosperity.

也就是说，悲观主义者认为非洲国家也许无法掌控“工业化—就业率增加—生产力提高—繁荣”这个良性循环圈。

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The result is a "demographic dividend", which can be cashed in to produce a virtuous cycle of growth.

而这一进程的结果就是：人口红利，它可以造就增长的良性循环。

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That means, pessimists fear, that African countries may fail to navigate the virtuous cycle of industrialisation, growing employment, increasing productivity and prosperity.

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The virtuous cycle of high volumes of handset sales allows more marketing to be done, which allows even more handsets to be sold, and so on.

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Yet lately the virtuous cycle has begun to bog down.

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