单词sclerotic
adj.: 硬的；硬性的；【解】巩膜的；【医】硬化的
n.: 【解】巩膜；硬化剂
网络: 硬结的；厚的；硬化性
硬结药,硬化剂
【解剖学】巩膜的
【医学】硬化的;硬结的
硬的,厚的;硬性的
巩膜的;硬化的
If Italy and Greece had not been so over-indebted and sclerotic, they would not be in such trouble today.
如果意大利和希腊不是过度举债，不是过度僵化，他们就不会落到今天的如斯处境了。
And his sensible bid to loosen up the sclerotic planning regime might be thwarted by nervous local councils.
他尝试放松计划过度的体制的想法虽然明智，却有可能受到对此感到紧张的地方行政的阻挠。
Top of the list must be improving their sclerotic economies, best done through a serious programme of liberalisation and deregulation.
首当其冲的就是改进他们已经僵化的经济，最好是通过认真的开展自由主义和放松管制的途径。
And yet after 1979 Margaret Thatcher showed that a determined government could shake up a sclerotic economy (and defeat the miners).
自1979年撒切尔夫人上台后，她便向世人证明，一个有决心的政府能够改革僵化的经济体制（也能击败矿工）。
He fears that the Democrats, if left unchecked, will turn the country into a sclerotic European-style social democracy.
他担心民主党人如果不受制止，会将美国变成僵化的欧洲风格的社会民主主义。
Yet in the six months since the revolution, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has done little to free up Egypt"s sclerotic economy.
但革命爆发到现在已经6个月了，埃及武装部队最高委员会在放开僵化的埃及经济方面几乎毫无作为。
The system became sclerotic, and over time, the economic engine of the world turned creaky and sluggish.
整个系统变得僵硬和过时，曾经世界经济的引擎变得破旧和毫无活力。
But Russia prefers to be judged against other fast-growing BRIC economies rather than an ageing, sclerotic Europe.
但是俄罗斯被认为是经济快速增长的“金砖四国”之一，而不是衰老僵化的欧洲经济一员了。
Sir Rod"s most ambitious recommendation was for a national road-pricing scheme to clear Britain"s sclerotic highways.
SirRod最野心勃勃的建议是支持一项全国道路定价方案来治理英国僵化的铁路系统。
Some observers worry that American society will become sclerotic, like Britain at the peak of its power a century ago.
许多观察家担忧美国社会将会变得僵化，正如一个世纪前的日不落帝国——英国。