But one would never know that from listening, for example, to Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, extolling his country’s virtues. “In the late 1990’s, [Germany] was the undisputed ‘sick man’ of Europe,” Schäuble wrote recently.
但你永远不可能从（比如）德国财长朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble）吹嘘德国美德时听说这一点。“20世纪90年代末，[德国]是毫无争议的欧洲‘病夫’，”朔伊布勒最近写道。他指出，让德国焕然一新的是劳动力市场自由化和约束公共支出。