紐時筆記090101：European Unity Falls Victim to Downturn

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1. downturn
   
2. to nurse their business
3. ... required big doses
4. inexorable= unstoppable, inescapable, inevitable, unavoidable
5. to fuel a debt-laden(lade 負重担） binge （狂熱）
6. as the financial crisis struck...(strike, struck, struck)
7. deteriorating : a. in the process of turning worse
8. keep...... from going bust
9. to cushion the serve slump
10. to shore up banks = to support banks
11. crouch : to lower body close to the ground （clutch=抓住／crutch=拐扙／crunch嘎吱嘎吱地嚼）
12. crumble v. 使成碎屑
13. relegate = to demote
14. backwater 滯水、回逆水
15. Such ties proliferated the region..... :v. 迅速繁殖、增殖
16. stringent criteria = severe criteria