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The Sinking Dollar Also Has an Upside
美元低迷也有好處
The once all-powerful dollar isn't doing a Titanic against just the pound. It is sitting at a record low against the euro and at a 30-year low against the Canadian dollar. Even the Argentine peso and Brazilian real are thriving against the dollar.
無所不能的美元在兌換英鎊時，不再是龐然大物。美元兌換歐元的匯率創下新低，并在與加元的兌換中處于30年來的最低值。就連阿根廷比索和巴西雷亞爾都比美元有活力。
The weak dollar is a source of bumiliation (屈辱), for a nation's sell-esteem rests in part on the strength of its currency. It's also a potential economic problem, since a declining dollar makes imported food more expensive and exerts upward pressure on interest rates. And yet there are substantial sectors of the vast U.S. economy - from giant companies like Coca-Cola to mom-and-pop restaurant operators in Miami-for which the weak dollar is most excellent news.
疲軟的美元帶來了屈辱，因為一個國家的尊嚴部分來源于本國貨幣的強度。這也是一個潛在的經濟問題，因為貶值的美元使得進口食品價格上揚，并施加加息的壓力。但對于龐大美國經濟中大量的產業部門——從可口可樂這樣的大公司到邁阿密的夫妻餐廳經營者——美元疲軟的消息對他們來說可是再好不過了。
Many Europeans may view the U.S. as an arrogant superpower that has become hostile to foreigners. But nothing makes people think more warmly of the U.S. than a weak dollar. Through April, the total number of visitors from abroad was up 6.8 percent from last year. Should the trend continue, the number of tourists this year will finally top the 2000 peak?
一些歐洲人視美國為一個傲慢的超級大國，并且認為美國對外國人懷有敵意。但當人們想起美國時，沒有什么比疲軟的美元更帶勁的了。整個4月的游客總數比去年同期增加了6.8%。如果這種趨勢延續下去，今年游客的人數將最終比2000年的峰值還多。
The money tourists spend helps decrease our chronic trade deficit. So do exports, which thanks in part to the weak dollar, soared 11 percent between May 2006 and May 2007. For the first five months of 2007, the trade deficit actually fell 7 percent from 2006.
游客的消費幫助減緩了我們長期以來的貿易赤字。出口也是如此，部分由于疲軟的美元，2006年5月到2007年5月的出口額飆升了11%。與2006年相比，2007年前5個月的貿易赤字居然下降了7%。
If you own shares in large American corporations, you're a winner in the weak-dollar gamble. Last week Coca-Cola's stick bubbled to a five-year high after it reported a fantastic quarter. Foreign sales accounted for 65 percent of Coke's beverage(飲料) business. Other American companies profiting from this trend include McDonald's and IBM.
如果你持有美國大公司的股票，那么你會是疲軟美元投機中的贏家。上周可口可樂發布了令人振奮的一季度數據后，其股價攀升至五年來的新高。海外銷售占據可口可樂65%的飲料業務。其他美國企業，包括麥當勞和IBM在這種趨勢下也贏得了利潤。
