In the words of Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, we are experiencing the “new mediocre.” The implication is that growth is unacceptably low relative to potential and that more can be done to lift it, especially given that some major economies are flirting with deflation.
用国际货币基金组织（IMF）总裁拉加德的话说，我们正在经历“新平庸”。其影响是增长相对于潜力来说低到不可接受的程度，而我们能够做更多的事提振增长，特别是考虑到一些主要经济体正在与通缩纠缠。