We have begun internal belt tightening, but this is not enough.

我们已开始在内部采取紧缩措施，但这还不够。

Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy's long-term prospects, even as they do some modest belt tightening.

消费者们看上去只是有点担心，而没有恐慌，很多消费者说尽管他们正在把开支紧缩一点，但是他们对经济的长期前景仍然保持乐观。

The ever-growing pack of GRC vendors have clearly defined the value they deliver, but not that they're something the enterprise cannot do without during a period of belt tightening.

数目与日俱增的GRC厂商无疑已经表现出了它们的价值，但它们还无法证明GRC平台是各大公司紧缩银根时期的必备之宝。

Most of us have survived a recession, so we're familiar with the belt-tightening strategies needed to survive a slump.

我们大多数人都挺过了经济衰退，所以我们都熟悉要在经济衰退中存活需要勒紧裤腰带的策略。

This will cause further belt-tightening in the public services.

这将导致进一步削减公共服务开支。

The belt-tightening environment in which it flourished does not pertain in many of the emerging markets it is targeting, although it certainly does in most of the rich world.

它所得以立足的勒紧裤腰带式消费环境与很多新兴的目标市场格格不入，虽然它的秘诀在大多数富裕的国家仍起作用。

The scale of budget belt-tightening suggests these Banks' policy rates could stay way down for several years.

勒紧裤腰带削减预算的规模表明这些银行的利率政策将保持多年不变。

The resulting products often turn out to have huge appeal in the rich world too, especially in an era of belt-tightening.

而这样做的结果是，这些产品在发达国家同样具有极大的吸引力，尤其是在这样一个得勒紧裤腰带过活的时代。

If the office itself is starting to look run down and like its in need of an upgrade, it's indicative of excessive belt-tightening measures.

如果办公室看起来是在走向衰败而且需要来一次升级，这就表明贵公司已经开始在勒紧裤腰带过日子了。

Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy's long-term prospects even as they do some modest belt-tightening.

消费者看起来略显忧虑，并没有惊慌失措。许多人虽然稍微勒紧腰带，但他们说对于经济的长期前景还是乐观的。

Household consumption fell in 2009 as a whole but sales of beansprouts, a classic belt-tightening purchase in Japan, jumped by more than 10%.

家庭消费在2009年整体下降但是豆芽菜的销量却跳升了10%还多，在日本，豆芽菜是勒紧裤带度日的传统食品。

Such belt-tightening had proved necessary even in the months before the rescue.

这样的收紧裤腰带过日子即便在救助后的几个月也被证明是必须的。

Portugal and Spain were persuaded to announce extra fiscal belt-tightening this week.

葡萄牙和西班牙被说服本周宣布进一步紧缩财政的措施。

They are part of a general belt-tightening at the agency.

它们是该机构出于全面紧缩开支的一部分。

He worries that Americans, long used to instant financial gratification, have borrowed so heavily from the future that the necessary belt-tightening will prove to be beyond them.

他担心，过去长期习惯很快获得金融借贷满足的美国人超过未来的预定如此严重，以致将证明必要的强制性节约会远不适用美国人。

General Motors and Chrysler were expected to draw on the funds immediately to avert bankruptcy, and will be required to implement new belt-tightening moves and demonstrate their long-term viability.

通用汽车和克莱斯勒预计将立即利用这些资金以避免破产，并将被要求实施新的紧缩举措，表明其长期生存能力。

But is it right to claim, as Mr Trichet and other devotees of "expansionary fiscal consolidations" do, that belt-tightening can actually aid growth in the short term?

但是，如特里谢先生和其他“扩张性的财政整顿”的信徒所言的那样，紧缩实际上在短期内促进增长吗？

Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy's long-term prospects, even as they do some modest belt-tightening.

消费者似乎只是有些担心，还没有开始恐慌，并且很多人还说就在他们稍稍勒紧腰带的时候，他们对经济的长远前景还是很乐观。

Narrowing things down even further, to the five most painful episodes of belt-tightening, produces a similar result.

把范围缩小到五次最有力度的财政紧缩时期，产生的结果几乎相同。

Just ask Ireland, which is on the verge of signing up for a big bailout from Europe - despite the fact that by belt-tightening standards Ireland has been one of Europe's rare success stories.

问问爱尔兰就知道了。就勤俭而言，爱尔兰可谓欧洲少有的成功典范，不过现在，该国也处在向欧盟请求紧急救助的边缘了。

The precise impact of next year’s belt-tightening is tricky to gauge.

紧缩政策对明年的具体影响目前还难以估量。

British consumers are apparently embarking on a new round of belt-tightening as soaring food and petrol prices and below-inflation wage rises eat into household budgets.

英国消费者很显然已经着手实现一个更加减衣缩食的计划因为不断上涨的食物和原油价格和缓慢的工资增长已经占用了大部分家庭开支。

The fund espouses a different method of identifying cases of belt-tightening.

对于紧缩政策，基金组着有着不同的定义。

We're prepared to be very belt-tightening in the second three months, so any improvement in maternity pay could only be a good thing.

我们准备在第二个三月里非常节约，因此任何改善产假工资的事都是好事。

Wei's income from his landscape paintings, which are sold in Europe, fell 80 percent last year, and the Year of the Ox seems likely to bring more belt-tightening.

魏以画国画为生，作品主要售往欧州。 去年他的业绩下降了80%，而牛年看起来将是更为艰难的一年。

Voters in creditor countries resent endless bail-outs; in debtor countries they resent endless belt-tightening.

债权国选民憎恨无止尽的纾困行动；而债务国选民则憎恨无止尽的财政紧缩。

Consumers are also showing signs of belt-tightening.

消费者中也已经出现勒紧裤带过日子的迹象。

That’s why we’re tightening Washington’s belt by cutting programs that don’t work, contracts that aren’t fair, and spending we don’t need.

也是为什么我勒紧首都华盛顿的裤腰带，砍掉一些不起作用的程序和不公平合约以及一些不需要的花费。