The economy is growing, but sustaining that trend is going to require elected officials to do their jobs. The housing market is recovering, but that could be impacted if folks are seeing smaller paychecks. The unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since 2008, but already you're seeing businesses and consumers starting to hold back because of the dysfunction that they see in Washington.

经济正在增长，但要维持这种趋势需要当选的官员做好他们的工作KHKq4R)Ne;5W。房地产市场正在复苏，但如果人们的工资更少了，就可能会对其产生影响mF*r=J)G9qRFrFeR。自2008年以来失业率达到了最低，但是你已经看到，企业和消费者开始犹豫不决，因为他们看到华盛顿的异常e!RV+x8Kn+B。

Economists, business leaders all think that we’re poised to grow in 2013 –- as long as politics in Washington don’t get in the way of America’s progress.

经济学家、商界领袖都料想2013年我们经济会增长——只要华盛顿政策不妨碍美国的进步^Fd.~m@_Y+o&hWc。

So we've got to get this done. I just want to repeat -- we had a constructive meeting today. Senators Reid and McConnell are discussing a potential agreement where we can get a bipartisan bill out of the Senate, over to the House and done in a timely fashion so that we've met the December 31st deadline. But given how things have been working in this town, we always have to wait and see until it actually happens. The one thing that the American people should not have to wait and see is some sort of action.

所以，我们必须实现这一目标AJe|AEsWXt]。我只是想重复——今天我们的会议是具有建设性的w@m,qNoW4N。参议员里德和麦克康奈尔正在讨论一项可能的协议，我们可以从参众两院得到一个两党性法案并立即实行，这样可以赶上12月31日最后的期限H=UA-MH@9HOiES=hbx。但考虑到市厅里事情的进展，我们总要等等，直到协议确实达成.ZS.D1[kDg。美国人民本不应该坐等的事就是我们采取某种行动9#!T2SLh9SUO6。

So if we don’t see an agreement between the two leaders in the Senate, I expect a bill to go on the floor -- and I've asked Senator Reid to do this -- put a bill on the floor that makes sure that taxes on middle-class families don’t go up, that unemployment insurance is still available for two million people, and that lays the groundwork, then, for additional deficit reduction and economic growth steps that we can take in the New Year.

所以，如果参议院内两领导人没有达成协议，我要求在议员席里实施一法案，我已经要求参议员里德这样做了，在议员席里使用这一法案，确保不会对中产阶级增税，两百万人仍享有失业保险，为新的一年里我们能采取的额外赤字削减和经济增长措施奠定基础MK8LlDwktbYY)]NEsaz.。

But let's not miss this deadline. That’s the bare minimum that we should be able to get done, and it shouldn’t be that hard since Democrats and Republicans both say they don’t want to see taxes go up on middle-class families.

但我们不要错过这个最后期限wT_6s(*3LGWk。这是最低限度，我们应该能够完成pJ,z1Z@sPDJYXwj。这项任务本不应该那么艰难，因为民主党和共和党都表示不想看到对中产阶级家庭增税Uy3RqB[&Lb[rDlM。

I just have to repeat -- outside of Washington, nobody understands how it is that this seems to be a repeat pattern over and over again. Ordinary folks, they do their jobs. They meet deadlines. They sit down and they discuss things, and then things happen. If there are disagreements, they sort through the disagreements. The notion that our elected leadership can't do the same thing is mind-boggling to them. It needs to stop.

我只需要重复——在华盛顿外，没有人知道它是如何进行的，这似乎是一个反复重复的模式x4(%G_9uT+Q*。普通百姓，他们做好自己的工作I67s&g.H&T.EcW&v。他们面对最后期限，他们坐下来，讨论事情，然后事情就有着落=6JWahCwF^o5xS4I。如果有分歧，他们会理清这些分歧-q%j3~)jWhnL。他们们很难相信自己选出来的领导不能做这样同样一件事J-Y,t3Thmf。这种情况需要停止*qR~U_pkW]Vtty。

So I'm modestly optimistic that an agreement can be achieved. Nobody is going to get 100 percent of what they want, but let's make sure that middle-class families and the American economy -- and, in fact, the world economy -- aren't adversely impacted because people can't do their jobs.

所以，对达能否成一项协议，我保持谨慎的乐观Ew!Ul|i*Mu^h4CnFj。没有人能完全得到他们想要的，但是让我们确保中产阶级家庭和美国经济——事实上是世界经济——不会因为人们没能做好他们的工作而受到负面影响;moA(3^P@Pz。

Thank you very much, everybody.

非常感谢大家@LK.OpbPHenetowRY。

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