aggravating

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💬 双语例句

1. Despite its frequent economic booms, Asia is also a strategic and security minefield. A sclerotic, atavistic, nationalist, and inward-looking Japan can only aggravate the situation.

2. Under conditions of weak aggregate demand, stronger public investment encourages more private business investment. But public investment, too, has fallen below pre-crisis expectations, aggravating rather than ameliorating the slump in private investment.

   在总需求疲软的背景下，加强公共投资鼓励更多的私人商业投资。 但公共投资也不如危机前预期，加剧而不是缓解了私人投资的暴跌。

3. Oil prices are not helping. Having already surged on account of Iran-related geopolitical concerns, they are altering American consumers’ behavior, weakening their confidence, aggravating the country’s payments imbalances, and further reducing policymakers’ flexibility.