1、 Plumper
plumper [ ]
n.1. 撑胀物;鼓腮物
2. 除酸剂
3. 将全部选票全部投给某一候选人之人
How does the country’s economy compare with those of the EU?
请问与那些欧盟国家的经济比较？
SOME of the concerns surrounding Turkey’s application to join the European Union, to be voted on by the EU’s Council of Ministers on December 17th, are economic-in particular, the country’s relative poverty.
一些关注土耳其周围的国家申请加入欧洲联盟，进行表决，由欧盟部长理事会于12月17日，是经济，特别是该国的相对贫困。
Its GDP per head is less than a third of the average for the 15 pre-2004 members of the EU.
其人均GDP是不到平均为15前的2004年欧盟成员三分之一，
But it is not far off that of one of the ten new members which joined on May 1st 2004 (Latvia), and it is much the same as those of two countries, Bulgaria and Romania, which this week concluded accession talks with the EU that could make them full members on January 1st 2007.
但它是不是已经为期不远，即其中的10个新成员的加入对2004年5月1日（拉脱维亚） ，这是很多相同的那些两个国家，保加利亚和罗马尼亚，这周结束加入世贸进行谈判的欧盟可以使他们的正式成员，对2007年1月1日。
Furthermore, the country’s recent economic progress has been, according to Donald Johnston, the secretary-general of the OECD, "stunning".
此外，该国近期的经济进展，已根据唐纳德约翰斯顿，秘书长经合组织， “惊人” 。
GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13.4% higher than a year earlier, a rate of growth that no EU country comes close to matching.
本地生产总值在今年第二季度是13.4 ％ ，高于前一年同期比较，增长率没有欧盟国家接近匹配。
Turkey’s inflation rate has just fallen into single figures for the first time since 1972, and this week the country reached agreement with the IMF on a new three-year, $10 billion economic programme that will, according to the IMF’s managing director, Rodrigo Rato,
土耳其的通胀率刚刚陷入单一的数字，第一时间自1972年以来，这周该国达成了协议，与国际货币基金组织就一项为期三年的新， 100亿美元的经济方案，将按照国际货币基金组织的常务董事，罗德里戈拉托，
"help Turkey... reduce inflation toward European levels, and enhance the economy’s resilience".
帮助土耳其...减少对欧洲的通胀水平，提高经济的应变能力
Resilience has not historically been the country’s economic strong point.
复原并没有在历史上一直是国家的经济支撑点。
As recently as 2001, GDP fell by over 7%.
最近在2001年，国内生产总值下降了超过7 ％ 。
It fell by more than 5% in 1994, and by just under 5% in 1999.
在1994年下跌5 ％以上，在1999年仅在5 ％以下。
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