大学英语：President Clinton realized

1. President Clinton realized---as al of us must---- that today’s economy is global.

正如每个人必须认识到的那样,克林顿总统认识到当今的经济具有全球性质.

2. 1977, the sum total of Chinese imports and exports was less than $15 billion, putting China’s share of world at 0.6 percent. The most populous country in the world, China ranked a distant 30th among exporting nations. By 1993 China’s exports and imports totaled nearly $200 billion. China had become the world’s tenth largest exporter.

在1977年,中国进出口总额还不到150亿美元,仅占世界贸易总额的0.6%, 世界上人口最多的中国在出口国家中排名靠后,仅是第30位,到1993年,中国进出口总额接近2000亿美元,它已成为每10个最大的出口国.

3. Per capita GNP has grown at an average rate of 7.6% from 1980-1992.

从1980年至1992年,人均国民生产总值平均增长率为7.6%.

4. But the importance of trade in our economy has exploded in the past three decades. In 1970, the value of two way trade was equal to just 13% of the US economy. Last year, that figure, at 28%, was more than twice as high. In just the last seven years, jobs supported by US exports have risen by 4 million, to a total of 11 million. That’s almost one out of ten American jobs. Last year US trade equaled $1.8 trillion dollars.

但在过去30年中,我们经济贸易的重要性大大地增加了,在1970年,双边贸易的总值占了整个美国经济的13%.去年上升到28%,比1970年增加了一倍多.就在过去7年中,美国的出口创造的就业机会增加了400万个.总数上升到1100万个.这个数字就占美国就业总数的1/10.去年, 美国贸易总额达到了1.8亿美元.