A United Nations spokeswoman in New York said the request would be considered.

一位在纽约的联合国女发言人称该请求会被予以考虑。

Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.

不久以前，人们还无法想象一种病毒能使众多国家封闭，而安全网被证明是如此灾难性地缺乏灵活性。

India, he was convinced, would be "a curse for other nations, a menace to the world," once it became industrialized.

他相信，印度一旦工业化之后，将是“其它国家的诅咒，全世界的威胁。”

But if the laws were repealed tomorrow, most of the nations of the world would make no move to take advantage of the respite, and any that did would be in danger of finding their credit vanishing.

但如果明天法律被废止，大部分国家可能不会利用这一暂缓期采取任何行动。如果有国家贸然行事，可能会将自己置身于丧失信贷的危机中。

And then all the Gentiles, all the nations, would come to the God of Israel, they would be grafted into the nation of Israel, they would worship the God of Israel.

然后所有外邦人，所有民族，都将来到以色列的上帝面前，他们将被纳入以色列民族，他们将崇拜以色列的上帝。

Only developed nations, including the US, would be expected to guarantee cuts.

只有发达国家需要保证减排量，当然也包括美国。

Because America's markets already are far more open to imports than those of nations such as Colombia, the U.S. would be the biggest winner.

因为相比于哥伦比亚那样的国家，美国的市场已经大大地对进口敞开了大门，美国会成为最大的赢家。

In that way it would be useful to make a contrast between Aristotle and someone like Adam Smith the great author of The Wealth of Nations.

在这一方面，有用的对比将是,把亚里士多德,与像亚当？史密斯这样人物,放在天秤的两端。

Such a change in course by EM policy makers would be a very good thing for EM nations.

如果新型市场国家的政策制定者们能做出这样的变化对新兴市场国家来说无疑是好事一桩。

One of my predecessors, Henry Kissinger, understood its significance, and recognized that as our two great nations opened lines of communication, the rest of the world would be affected.

我的前任之一亨利•基辛格（Henry Kissinger）深知其重大意义，并认识到，我们两个伟大国家打开沟通渠道，将对全世界产生影响。

There are a few Quake Catchers in the Central Asian nations Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- places where "it would be pretty difficult to install a [traditional] seismometer."

中亚国家（Central Asian nation）吉尔吉斯斯坦（Kyrgyzstan）和塔吉克斯坦（Tajikistan）也有一些地震捕手——这些地方“很难安装传统的地震检波器。”

To be sure, that's not to say member nations were necessarily happy about it, but at this point intervention would only have limited results. (See "G7 Abandons The Dollar.")

可以确定，这些成员国并非对滥发的美元感到高兴，但在此刻，他们对此加以干涉并不会得到太多成果。

It would be best if the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions, but that takes too long.

如果联合国安理会对之进行制裁那是最好的，不过那将需要很长时间。

True, inside the eurozone, powerful ant nations may be able to put the countries in trouble under central control, though even that would only be possible with smaller countries.

诚然，在欧元区内部，实力强大的蚂蚁国家或许能够将陷入困境的国家置于集中控制之下，尽管只是对较小的国家才有这种可能。

This single step would be huge for most poor countries, and make very little difference to developed nations.

单单这一步就会对贫穷的国家产生巨大助益，而对发达国家却影响甚微。

Citizens of other European nations would see the chaos; they might figure that their savings would be safer in German, rather than Portuguese (or Italian) Banks.

其他欧洲国家的公民将目睹这种混乱，他们或许认识到将积蓄放到德国而不是葡萄牙(或意大利)银行会安全一些。

Then they said that banks would not need recapitalising because sovereign nations would never default. They now seem to be facing reality on this score.

然后他们又说，银行不需要进行资本重组，因为从未有过主权国家违约的，现在这个说法也正面临严峻的现实。

Independent nations would embark on a technological "survival-race" to see how many citizens could be launched off the planet.

独立国家将开始一场技术“生存竞赛”，较量一下到底能让多少人撤离该星球。

It is a message that other nations, both inside and outside the eurozone, would be wise to listen to if they want to avoid a downgrade in the near future.

对于其他国家来说，无论是否属于欧元区，若不想在不久的将来遭到降级厄运，领会这一信号无疑也是明智之举。

That is a bigger adjustment than would be required of any other country, even allowing for the fact that the IMF set other nations a target debt-to-GDP ratio of 60%.

这是远高于其他国家所需做调整的金额，更何况国际货币基金为其他国家设定的目标是将债务占GDP比降到60%。

As wealth and power have shifted to the emerging markets, those nations now have the money and confidence to call their own shots - and their calls tend to be quite different from those we would make.

财富和权力流失到新兴的市场，这些国家现在有钱和自信的要求他们的标准——这些标准正逐渐不同于我们想要的。

The 27-nation bloc wants a deal by 2015 for all nations that would be implemented by 2020 at the latest.

这个27国集团想要所有国家在2015年前达成一致并最迟到2020年实施。

One way to catch up would be to knit together textile and garment producers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to create a regional supply chain.

赶上中国的一个途径，或许是东盟各纺织厂与制衣商抱成一团，打造地区供应链。

I replied that I hoped that someday our nations would be reconciled.

我回答说，希望有一天两国能够和解。

A new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says one of the best ways would be to remove the barriers women farmers face that male farmers do not.

联合国粮农组织一份最新的报告称，最好的办法之一就是消除女性农民单独面临的一些障碍。

If the medical authorities are correct, one-third of the British population may be affected this winter (other nations would presumably be similarly hit).

如果医疗机构预测没错的话，到今年冬天，英国将有三分之一的人感染“猪流感”(其他国家也可能会遇到类似的流感爆发)。

These would be under the control of the united nations as trustees .

这些地方都作为托管地，由联合国家管制。