只有很少发达国家的人能体会到1998年受灾亚洲国家所经历的那种严峻的总产值收缩状况，更别说拿出将紧缩加诸于本国经济之上的勇气了。
Few of us in the developed world can fathom aggregate-output contractions on the scale that crisis-torn Asia suffered in 1998, let alone muster the political will to impose them on our economies.