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Brazilian Letters: Bard of Belindia
巴西字符：Belindia詩人
An economist become immortal.
不朽的經濟學家。
Brazilians who remember the hyper inflationary 1980s cheered the news on April 7th that prices rose by just 4.57% in the year to March.
在4月7日，仍記著80年代惡性通貨膨脹的巴西人民，為今年3月物價只上漲了4.57%的新聞而歡呼。
Inflation has not come that close to the central bank's target of 4.5% in seven years.
通貨膨脹率還沒有達到央行七年內4.5%的目標。
In a fitting coincidence, on the same day one of the architects of the Real Plan, which tamed inflation in 1994, donned the gold-and-green livery of the “immortals”, as members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters are known.
巧合的是，就在同一天，1994年馴服通脹猛虎“真正計劃”的設計者之一，穿上了象征“不朽”的金綠色制服，這是巴西文學院成員有目共睹的。
Edmar Bacha is just the third economist to join the august group, whose 40 lifetime appointments are reserved for towering intellectuals and the finest wordsmiths.
Edmar Bacha正好是第三位加入這個神圣組織的經濟學家，這個組織在其40年存在期內的職務都是留給那些頂尖文豪和知識分子。
His election last November (by members of the academy) was one of the most contentious in its 120-year history.
去年11月，Edmar Bacha的當選（由學院的成員們投票）是在其120年歷史上最具有爭議性的。
It may also be a sign of the times.
它可能是一個時代的標志。
Besides wrestling with inflation, Mr Bacha was head of the statistics office and the state development bank.
除了應對通貨膨脹，巴沙先生也掌管國家統計局和國家開發銀行。
He later became an investment banker.
他后來成為一個投資銀行家。
He has a way with words.
他有自己的一套處事方法。
In “Fable for technocrats”, an essay published in 1974, he described Brazil as “Belindia”, a tiny, rich Belgium surrounded by a vast, poor India.
在其1974年發表的“技術官僚謊言”文章里，他描述巴西為“Belindia”，一個被遼闊且貧窮的印度包圍著的小而富裕的比利時。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
