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- US Senate Passes $3 Trillion Budget Plan
- 美参议院通过叁兆美元预算计划
- The U.S. Senate has approved a three-trillion dollar budget plan.
- 美国参议院通过了一项叁兆美元财政预算计划。
- The Democratic-controlled Senate approved the measure early Friday by a vote of 51-44, mostly along party lines.
- 民主党控制的参议院星期五早些时候以 51 票对 44 票通过了这项议案；参议员基本依照所属党派的立场投了自己的票。
- The budget blueprint will guide Congress as it passes spending bills for the 2009 fiscal year, which begins in October.
- 财政预算作為一份蓝图，指导国会為今年 10 月开始的 2009 财政年度通过各项开支法案。
- The Senate resolution must be reconciled with a similar budget plan approved by the House of Representatives.
- 参议院通过的决议必须与眾议院通过的相关预算法案相协调。
- In the Senate plan, lawmakers rejected a one year ban on earmarks -- spending allocations for projects favored by specific members of Congress.
- 在参议院法案中，参议员拒绝了对议员专项拨款实行一年禁令的条款 -- 议员专项拨款指為某些议员所青睞的项目做出的特别拨款。
- Presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain had called for the ban on earmarks.
- 预计将获得共和党总统候选人提名的麦凯恩参议员呼吁禁止议员专项拨款。
- The Senate also approved the continuation of some of President Bush's tax cuts, including one for the working poor, but not for wealthier Americans.
- 参议院还批准延续布希总统减税计划的某些内容，包括為贫困的工人减税，但不為较富裕的美国人减税。
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- EU Leaders Back Goals for Fighting Climate Change
- 欧盟领导人支援遏止气候变化目标
- European Union leaders have backed ambitious goals to fight climate change but stressed that they must be affordable at a time of economic downturn.
- 欧洲联盟各国领导人雄心勃勃地支援阻止气候变化的目标；但是他们强调，在当前经济逆转的情况下，实现这些目标的费用必须能承受得起。
- In a statement issued at the conclusion of a two-day summit in Brussels, the leaders pledged to finalize by next year their strategy for a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2020.
- 在布鲁塞尔举行的两天高峰会议之后发表的声明中，各国首脑承诺将在明年最终议定 2020 年减少 20 % 温室效应气体排放的策略。
- But they stressed that the cost of the project should not impose excessive costs on EU member states.
- 但是他们强调，实现目标的费用不能给欧洲联盟国家带来过高的代价。
- Thursday, the leaders accepted a modified version of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal for a new Mediterranean trading bloc that would include North African and Middle Eastern countries.
- 欧盟领导人星期四接受了法国总统萨尔科奇建议的修改方案，同意成立一个包括北美和中东国家在内的「地中海贸易集团」。
- The French leader won the support of his EU colleagues after accepting changes that eased Germany's concerns that the proposal would undermine EU unity.
- 这位法国总统接受了為缓解德国担忧而做出改变后，从而赢得了各国领导人的支援；德国曾担心关於这项建议可能不利於欧盟团结。
- The leaders instructed EU officials to work out further details by July.
- 欧盟各国领导人让欧盟官员 7 月前拟定出计划的进一步细节。
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