这种惨淡景象的亮点在于它不需要过多通过削减年度赤字以防止负债率的上升，甚至还能让后者倒退到十年前的水平。
The bright spot in this bleak picture is that it would not take much in terms of annual deficit reductions to prevent the rise in the debt ratio, or even to bring it back to where it was a decade ago.