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Are We There Yet? ?我们恢复过来了吗？ America’s recovery will be much slower than that from most recessions; but the government can help a bit. ?美国的经济复苏要比以往从经济衰退中复苏要来的慢很多，但是政府可以帮一点忙。 “WHITHER goest thou, America?” That question, posed by Jack Kerouac on behalf of the Beat generation half a century ago, is the biggest uncertainty hanging over the world economy. And it reflects the foremost worry for American voters, who go to the polls for the congressional mid-term elections on November 2nd with the country’s unemployment rate stubbornly stuck at nearly one in ten. They should prepare themselves for a long, hard ride. ??美利坚，你的路在何方？”那个由垮掉的一代的代表人物杰克·凯鲁亚克在半个世界前提出的问题，一直是世界经济圈内悬而未决的最大的不确定因素。这也反映出美国选民们最大的担忧，他们将要进行十二月中期的国会选举，而他们的失业率仍然固定的保持在十分之一。他们要为这次旷日持久，艰辛困难的战争做好准备。 The most wrenching recession since the 1930s ended a year ago. But the recovery—none too powerful to begin with—slowed sharply earlier this year. GDP grew by a feeble 1.6% at an annual pace in the second quarter, and seems to have been stuck somewhere similar since. The housing market slumped after temporary tax incentives to buy a home expired. So few private jobs were being created that unemployment looked more likely to rise than fall. Fears grew over the summer that if this deceleration continued, America’s economy would slip back into recession. 一年前，自二十世纪三十年代开始的最猛烈的经济衰退结束。但是，美国的恢复却在开始的时候就不是很强劲有力而最近几年恢复的势头还有所减缓。第二季度的GDP年增长率仅为1.6%，?而且看上去像是卡住了一样，毫无起色。房地产市场在经过短期的税收福利政策之后变一直下跌。少量的私人工作岗位使得失业率看上去不升反降。人们担心假如这个夏天经济复苏继续放缓，美国将会重回经济衰退的窘境。 Fortunately, those worries now seem exaggerated. Part of the weakness of second-quarter GDP was probably because of a temporary surge in imports from China. The latest statistics, from reasonably good retail sales in August to falling claims for unemployment benefits, point to an economy that, though still weak, is not slumping further. And history suggests that although nascent recoveries often wobble for a quarter or two, they rarely relapse into recession. For now, it is most likely tha