The budget surplus is running at 2% of GDP; ten years ago the deficit was close to 3.4%.

预算结余为GDP的2%，而10年之前赤字接近3.4%。

But the budget surplus should at least reduce the need for drastic cut backs, Mr Brecher says.

但是布雷彻先生表示，预算盈余应该至少减少这种对大幅削减的需求。

The budget surplus he inherited is now a deficit, the fiscal hole in America's retiree programmes is bigger than ever, the tax system is an unstable, patched-up mess.

他接手时的预算盈余如今已是赤字，退休计划造成了美国有史以来最大的财政亏空，而税收体系处于极不稳定、漏洞百出的混乱状态。

The funds will come from the budget surplus, which has been amassed largely on the back of a mining boom that has seen vast quantities of Australian minerals exported to China and India.

这些资金将来自预算盈余，这些盈余主要是靠采矿业的繁荣积累起来的。 澳大利亚把大量矿物出口到中国和印度。

Japan, unlike other big economies, is in the enviable position of having a budget surplus.

不像其他经济大国，日本有着令人羡慕的预算盈余。

PLUNGING unemployment, rocketing growth, soaring exports and a budget surplus: that is the story of Estonia as it bounces back from a precipitous economic collapse.

骤降的失业率，飞速增长的出口和有盈余的预算：这就是爱沙尼亚从险峻的经济危机中反弹的故事。

The budget, which was in surplus little more than a decade ago, now has a deficit of Greek-style proportions.

现在的预算，在十年以前还会有点剩余，现在却有和希腊一样比例的赤字。

Sweden, like the other Nordic countries, is likely to run a sizeable budget surplus in 2008.

瑞典和其他北欧国家一样，很可能在2008年实现可观的预算盈余。

The budget is heading into surplus next year.

下年可以看到预算盈余。

The first is a numerical policy rule, such as a target for the debt ratio or, as in Chile, a pledge to run a budget surplus of 1% of GDP over the business cycle.

首先，要有一个量化的政策体系，例如债务目标比率，或像智利一样，在经济周期中把预算盈余设定为占gdp的1%。

But it preserves the rest of the Bush tax cuts - cuts that were originally sold as a way to dispose of a large budget surplus.

不过，提案保留布什减税的其它部分——最早作为消除巨额预算盈余而兜售的减税项目。

The budget posted a surplus in 2008 but this was partly due to a one-off boost from sales of mobile-phone licences.

预算公布了2008年盈余，但这大部分是由于集中激励移动电话销售而造成的。

Yet she also insists that her pre-flood pledge to bring the federal budget into surplus by 2012-13 still stands.

她同时强调，洪水前的保证，在2012 - 2013年之前，将给该州充盈的联邦预算依然不变。

Housing repossessions are still very rare; the state budget is still in surplus even as California and New York teeter on the edge of bankruptcy.

收回房屋抵押的情况还很少见；州预算仍有盈余，而连加利福尼亚州和纽约州都已经在破产边缘摇摇欲坠了。

But the euro crisis has exposed the weakness of public finances in a country that has not run a budget surplus since 1974.

但是，欧债危机把这个国家公共财政的缺点暴露无遗，自1974年以来法国的财政便未出现过盈余。

High oil revenues have brought double-digit budget surpluses to the Gulf oil producers and pushed Russia's surplus over 6% of GDP.

而高昂的石油收入为海湾地区产油国带来了两位数的预算盈余，也将俄罗斯的预算盈余推高至gdp的6%。

They note that Iraq has a budget surplus as a result of the rising price of its oil exports, while the United States is grappling with budget deficits and other economic problems.

他们指出，由于出口石油价格不断增长，伊拉克现在有预算盈余，而美国则在跟预算赤字和其他经济问题作斗争。

The primary budget balance (ie, excluding interest payments) was in surplus in the run-up to membership but has been in deficit since 2003.

在加入欧元区前夕，希基本预算平衡(即不包括利息支出的预算)尚有盈余，但2003年以来一直处于赤字状态。

The latest European Commission report on Greece makes a point of arguing that Belgium ran a primary budget surplus (ie, before interest) almost as large as the one now required of Greece.

最近一份欧盟委员会的报告显示，比利时财政盈余几乎达到现在要求希腊的财政盈余。

Such people, land-rich but cash-poor, may now submit their credits to the state treasury for a full cash refund whenever the state budget is in surplus.

象他们这种情况——农场牧场万顷，钱袋空空如也——现在可以将所得税扣除额提交给州财政，只要州财政预算有赢余，就能要求全额现金返还。

At that point, claim the EU's and IMF's economists, Greece will have returned to growth and reached a primary budget surplus (ie, it will raise more revenue than it spends, before interest).

到那时，希腊将恢复经济增长，实现基本的财政盈余(比如，它的税收所得将比开支多，息前)，欧盟和国际货币基金组织的经济学家断言。

Ten years ago, we had a big budget surplus with projected surpluses far into the future.

十年前，我们有一笔很大的预算盈余，并且对长远未来有计划盈余。

Over the past decade, China's budget deficit was very low, and in 2007 it ran a budget surplus.

过去10年来，中国的预算赤字很低，2007年还出现了预算盈余。

The United States had a record federal budget surplus.

美国财政预算出现了创纪录的盈余。

Ten years ago, the federal budget was in surplus.

10年前，联邦预算盈余。