国际物流英100句修订版.doc

国际物流英语100句 1．International Trade Milestones The development of international trade has been fostered over the years by several critical milestones, the ratification of several key international treaties, and the establishment of international organizations designed to facilitate and support international trade activities. 国际贸易重大事件 一些重大事件对半个世纪以来国际贸易的发展起到了促进作用：一是，几个关键国际条约的签订；二是，一些旨在促进和支持国际贸易活动的国际组织的成立。 2． The World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization (WTO) was officially created on January 1; 1995. It “replaced” the GATT and is the organization that is essentially in charge of “enforcing” free trade. Since 2001, the WTO has been working on the Doha Round of multilateral negotiations, whose goal is to improve trade in agriculture commodities, which is impeded by a large number of nontariff barriers, and replete with agriculture subsidies in developed countries. 世界贸易组织 世界贸易组织（WTO)于1995年1月1日正式成立。它替代了关税及贸易总协定，实质上是负责促进自由贸易。世界贸易组织从2001年开始多哈回合的多边协商工作，其目的是促进农产品交易。多哈回合由于大量非关税壁垒及发达国家坚持给予农业大量的补贴而受阻。 3．The Creation of the Euro The euro is the European currency introduced in 1999 and put in circulation on January 1,2002 in twelve of the twenty-five countries of the European Union (Austria ,Belgium ,Finland ,France ,Germany ,Greece ,Italy ,Ireland ,Luxembourg ,the Netherlands ,Portugal ,and Spain).It has also become the currency of a number of smaller countries not part of the European Union ,and the currency on which a number of developing countries have pegged their currencies .It was the first multinational effort to replace twelve strong legacy currencies , and it has become one of the strongest currencies of the world. 欧元的创建 欧元是1999年引入的欧洲货币，2002年1月1日在欧盟25个成员国中的12个国家（奥地利、比利时、法国、德国、芬兰、荷兰、卢森堡、爱尔兰、意大利、葡萄牙、西班牙和希腊）开始流通。一些小的非欧盟国家逐渐将欧元作为本国货币，还有一些发展中国家货币市价紧跟欧元。欧元是世界上第一次多国努力用一种货币替代12种强势法定的货币，已经成为世界上最强势的货币之一。 4. International Trade Drivers There are many explanations for the enormous surge in international trade in the second half of