2013年巴西进一步加强预算削减

 　　RIO DE JANEIRO, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government will further trim its 2013 budget by 10 billion reais (about 4.5 billion U.S. dollars), Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Monday.

　　It is the third budget cut this year since May, in addition to a curtailment¹ of 28 billion reais (some 12.5 billion dollars) announced two months ago, and a 15-billion-real (or 6.7 billion dollars) cut earlier in July.

　　Despite these cuts, the total amount of the budget reduction is still lower than that last year, when 55 billion reais (24.6 billion dollars) were trimmed from the federal budget.

　　Out of the announced cut of 10 billion reais, 5.6 billion (2.5 billion dollars) will be cut from mandatory² expenses, with the rest trimmed from air tickets, machinery³, equipment and outsource services.

　　Mantega assured that prior social programs and the investment in education and public healthcare will be maintained.

　　The budget tapering⁴ came after a wave of mass protests over the past month sparked by a transit⁵ fare hike that angered Brazilians who witnessed massive public spending on sporting events.

　　The cut is aimed at helping⁶ the government achieve the primary surplus target for 2013, which was set at 110.9 billion reais (49.7 billion dollars), or 2.5 percent of the country's GDP.

1 curtailment   

n.缩减，缩短

参考例句：

• The usage based allocation method and the curtailment based allocation method are discuss. 在责任分摊法中，阐述了使用程度分摊法和裁减量分摊法。 来自互联网
• In transaction curtailment study, different transaction curtailment models using different types of curtailment objectives. 在交易裁减的研究中，不同的交易裁减模型采用了不同类型的裁减目标。 来自互联网

2 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

3 machinery   

n.(总称)机械，机器；机构

参考例句：

• Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗？
• Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。

4 tapering   

adj.尖端细的

参考例句：

• Interest in the scandal seems to be tapering off. 人们对那件丑闻的兴趣似乎越来越小了。
• Nonproductive expenditures keep tapering down. 非生产性开支一直在下降。

5 transit   

n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过

参考例句：

• His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
• The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

6 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。