The increase came in a year of economic contraction.

虽然过去一年经济紧缩，但军费上升。

Well, it means we're in a sustained period of economic contraction.

这意味着我们处于持续的经济萎缩期。

In Japan, a new analysis predicts a larger economic contraction than previously forecast.

日本一份新的分析报告也预测经济收缩幅度要比先前预计的高。

After SARS, China suffered several months of economic contraction and then rebounded dramatically.

非典过后，中国经济历经了几个月的收缩才开始出现大幅增长。

Britain has posted the biggest economic contraction reported by any major economy so far.

英国公布了迄今为止主要经济体中最大的经济萎缩幅度。

In France. the central bank is predicting an economic contraction of 10% this year. More from our economics correspondent Andrew Walker.

在法国。中央银行预计今年经济将收缩10%。请听本台经济记者安德鲁·沃克报道。

And the problem there is that it would just mean central banks have less room to manoeuvre when there's an economic contraction.

问题是，这只意味着当经济收缩时，央行的回旋余地更小。

Only Greece suffered an economic contraction of a comparable scale.

只有希腊遭受了可比规模的经济收缩。

Thelnupagenda promised by the Tories should have led them straight to colleges, which were particularly, hard-hit by economic contraction, and also to the under-resourced careers service.

承诺由托利党提出的Thelnupagenda本应直接引导他们前往大学，这些大学特别受到经济萧条的冲击，同时也应该关注资源不足的职业服务。

Although the country unexpectedly avoided an economic contraction in the second quarter (GDP rose by 0.3% on the previous quarter) its economy is expected to shrink in the final three months of 2022.

尽管该国在第二季度意外地避免了经济萎缩(国内生产总值比上一季度增长0.3%)，但预计其经济将在2022年最后三个月出现萎缩。

Afghanistan was already the poorest country in Asia, suffered after the Taliban took over a 20 per cent, massive 20 per cent economic contraction. And so these people who are already living fairly precariously were just plunged into crisis.

阿富汗已经是亚洲最贫穷的国家，在塔利班接管 20% 之后，经济大幅萎缩 20%。因此，这些已经生活得相当不稳定的人刚刚陷入危机。