As the situation deteriorated, one might have guessed that the IMF would mark its beliefs to market, as it were, and adopt a more cautious tone. Instead, at the IMF’s April 2011 interim meeting, a senior official declared that the Fund now considers troubled Spain to be a core eurozone country like Germany, rather than a peripheral country like Greece, Portugal, or Ireland.
随着情况的恶化，你也许会认为IMF将向往常一样信赖市场，并在放话时采取更加谨慎的语调。但是，在2011年4月的IMF中期会议上，一位高级官员宣称，IMF将陷入困境的西班牙视为和德国同等的欧元区核心国家，而不是像希腊、葡萄牙和爱尔兰这样的外围国家。