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家园 希夫在讲话中强调的是,这两种做法都是不可取的

“违约只有两条途径,要么直接宣布不还,要么多印钞票(让美元贬值)来还。这就是这些债务唯一可能的两种结局。”——这句话对应的原文应该是这段:

And there's only two ways we can default. We just legitimately don't pay, or we print money. That's it. There's only two ways to repudiate your debt. There's no way we're going to pay the debt; the Chinese have to know that, and we're going to figure that out.

但是,这篇译文没有提到的是,希夫在下面紧接着就强调,这两种做法都是不可取的,因为这会导致美国失去信誉,而“信用是经济的生命血液”(Credit is the life blood of the economy)。还债的唯一办法是造东西,比如汽车,然后把汽车卖给中国人:

Now, we need to make cars. You know why we need to make cars, because there are a lot of people in China that are still on bicycles. They need cars. We should be able to make cars for them and export them. We don't need them for ourselves, because we own too many cars. We have too much everything.

(现在,我们要造汽车。你们知道为什么我们要造汽车,因为在中国还有很多人骑自行车。他们需要汽车。我们必须能造出汽车来出口给他们。我们自己不需要这些汽车,因为我们已经有太多的汽车了。我们有了太多的东西。)

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