金融问题威胁大西洋两岸国家

短语讲解：

1. Financial crises on both sides of the Atlantic are heating up.

heat up沸腾, 使变得激烈
例句：The election campaign heated up in that state.
该州竞选运动激烈起来了。

2.  And in the United States, there is growing concern that President Barack Obama and Congress will be unable to agree on a deal to raise the government's debt ceiling in order to avoid a default on the federal debt.

agree on对某事〔物〕有同样看法, 商定〔同意〕某事, 商定做某事
例句：We agree on the question.
我们在这个问题上意见一致。
debt ceiling债务限额
in order to为了
例句：We started early in order to arrive before dark.
为了在天黑前到达,我们很早就动身了。

3. The Greek financial crisis loomed over Europe for weeks as frequent and sometimes violent demonstrations and strikes took place to protest government spending cuts and tax hikes aimed at averting a default on Greece's massive debt.

take place发生; 举行
例句：The threatening strike did not take place after all.
可能来临的罢工终究没有发生。
aim at以…为目标
The visit was aimed at expanding the relations between the two countries.
访问的目的是扩展两国的关系。

4. And the United States also is struggling with its own financial woes.

struggle with与…打架, 与…斗争
例句：We still have to struggle with all kinds of difficulties.
我们仍得和各种各样的困难作斗争。

5. He says Europe's problems as well as the problems in the U.S. will have a dramatic impact on the world economy.

have an impact on对…有影响;对…起作用,产生效果
例句：The amount of taxation levied will have an impact on the economy of a country.
征缴的税额对一国的经济有直接影响。

6. It is that the follow on from it, what you might call the tsunami effect, from the original earthquake would be so dramatic that I think it would derail the recovery and quite possibly pitch the world into a fresh bout of recession

a bout of一段(工作), 一次(训练), 一场(疾病); （尤指坏事的）一通, 一次
例句：I've just recovered from a bout of malaria.
我患了疟疾, 刚刚痊愈。

7. "On both sides of the Atlantic, we see this strange kind of the same political economy trying to work out who is responsible; who should jump first; who should bear the pain on any of the solutions, knowing that someone has to bear pain somewhere," he said.

work out 解决, 解答; 计算出
例句：She worked out the problem with no difficulty.
她毫无困难地解决了这个问题。

8. The decision is key to in preventing the region's debt crisis from spreading to other countries.

prevent from阻止, 防止
例句：Cotton mittens will prevent the baby from scratching his own face.
棉的连指手套使婴儿不会抓伤自己的脸。

9. A severe debt crisis would deal a devastating blow to the European economy and would lead almost certainly to the break up of the single currency area.

break up (使)破裂
例句：It was money trouble that broke up their marriage.
他们因钱的问题婚姻才破裂的。

10. Regardless of what the outcome in both the United States and Europe, one thing most economists agree upon is that time is running out for containing our modern era's fiscal contagion.

regardless of不管, 不顾
例句：I shall go regardless of the weather.
无论天气好坏我都要去。
run out用完, 耗尽
例句：He ran himself out in the first few circles.
他才跑了几圈就没力气了。