俄羅斯經濟大幅衰弱,目前只相當於西班牙
The decline in the price of oil, Western economic sanctions against the nation following its invasion of Ukraine, and the collapse of the Russian rouble that resulted, has decimated Russia's economy.
石油價格的下降，西方在烏克蘭入侵後實施的經濟制裁，以及隨之而來的盧布崩潰，所有這一切都摧毀了俄羅斯經濟。Now Russian GDP has shrunk so much it is no longer theworld's eighth largest economic power, according to The Telegraph. Instead, Putin's Russia is now carriesroughly the same economic weight as ... Spain:
現在，英國《每日電訊報》報道，隨着俄羅斯GDP的下降，俄羅斯已經不再是世界第八大經濟體。現在，經濟規模只相當於西班牙。
Russia has lost its ranking as the world's eighth biggest economy, shrinking in just nine months from a $2.1 trillion petro-giantto a mid-size player comparable with Korea or Spain.
俄羅斯已經不再是世界第八大經濟體，在9個月的時間裏，其GDP規模從2.1萬億美元下降到同韓國或則西班牙一般。
For the past several years, Spain has been regarded as one of Europe's more feeble economies, with 1 in 4 Spaniards unemployed. Spain's GDP was about $1.4 trillionin 2013, according to the World Bank. Spain was the 13th biggest economy on the planet until Putinordered tanks into the Crimea.
過去7年來，西班牙都被認爲是歐洲經濟較弱的國家之一，有四分之一的西班牙人失業。西班牙的GDP在2013年時大約是1.4萬億美元，這是世界銀行的數據。西班牙之前是全球第13大經濟體，直到普京派遣坦克進入克里米亞。Now it is likely that Italy, India, Canada, andAustralia are all more economically significant than Russia. Here was the World Bank's GDP ranking for 2013, before Russia went into its current crisis. Thenumbers are in billions of US dollars:
現在，意大利，印度，加拿大和澳洲在經濟規模上可能都比俄羅斯來得大。以下是世界銀行2013年的GDP排名，即俄羅斯遭遇目前的危機之前。單位爲10億美元。(European Union 17,350,853)
歐盟1 United States 16,800,000
美國2 China 9,240,270
中國3 Japan 4,901,530
日本4 Germany 3,634,823
德國5 France 2,734,949
法國6 UK 2,521,381
英國7 Brazil 2,245,673
巴西8 Russia 2,096,777
俄羅斯9 Italy 2,071,307
意大利10 India 1,876,797
印度11 Canada 1,826,769
加拿大12 Australia 1,560,597
澳洲13 Spain 1,358,263
西班牙14 S Korea 1,304,554
韓國15 Mexico 1,260,915
墨西哥It's not clear what Russia's GDP equivalent isright now because the decline of the rouble has been so swift and volatile thatthe calculation needs to be done anew every day. On Monday the rouble experienced its largest one-day flop since the 1998 Russian crisis.
現在還不知道俄羅斯的GDP規模有多少，因爲盧布的衰弱非常的迅速且不穩定，所以每天都得從新計算。週一，盧布經歷了1998年俄羅斯危機以來的最大跌幅。Of course, this may all be temporary. The price ofoil has sunk to just above $68 abarrel (for WTI), dragging the oil-dependent Russian economy with it. If the price perks up, Russia can expect to make its way back up the GDP charts.
當然，這些可能都是暫時的。石油價格剛剛下降了每桶68美元以上（指的是西德州中級原油），致使依靠石油的俄羅斯經濟下滑。如果石油價格上升，俄羅斯的GDP排名可能又會重新上升。
