今年初，当罗塞夫正式开始其第二个总统任期时，她的政府的重点一目了然：实施可信的财政调整计划，使初级预算平衡（不含利息支付）稳稳地回归盈余并让公共债务增长率回到可持续水平。
At the beginning of the year, when Rousseff’s second presidential term officially began, her administration’s priorities were clear: implement a credible fiscal-adjustment program that would take the primary budget balance (which excludes interest payments) comfortably back into surplus and reduce the growth rate of public debt to sustainable levels.