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德国是欧洲的“病夫”,正如日本是亚洲的病源。 Germany is Europe's "sick man", just as Japan is Asia's. | ||
过去,我们的国家积贫积弱,国民体质不佳,西方人讽刺我们是“东亚病夫”。 Pass by, our nations accumulate a poverty to accumulate weak, citizen's physical endowment is poor and western person's satirizing us is "disease man in East Asia". | ||
也有过因疏远海洋,丧失了世界文明领先地位,沦为“东亚病夫”而遭受任人崭割的悲惨岁月。 As a result of neglecting the importance of the ocean, China lost the leading stage in the world civilization and had once been called "Silkmen of East Asia ". | ||
本期我们将与大家分享这60年来中国体育史上的辉煌时刻,见证一个"东亚病夫"崛起成为体育大国。 Now let's share the great moments in China's sports history in the past 60 years. | ||
举例来说,过去的二十年里,德国的单位人工成本比欧元区平均水平高出12%,也因此得到了“欧洲病夫”的绰号。 Two decades ago Germany's unit Labour costs, for instance, were some 12% above the euro-zone average, earning it the epithet of the "sick man of Europe". | ||
十年前,德国还是欧洲的一介病夫,长期受缓慢的经济增长与高失业率的困扰;其大型制造商也纷纷外迁,以竭力寻求更低的生产成本。 A decade ago Germany was the sick man of Europe, plagued by slow growth and high unemployment, with big manufacturers moving out in a desperate search for lower costs. | ||