Life is no longer so sweet in the land of "la dolce vita", with a report finding that more than 11pc of Italian families now live in relative poverty.
報告顯示，有超過11%的義大利家庭相對貧窮，在這塊「甜美生活」的土地上，生活不再如此甜美。
Eight million Italians, out of a population of 60 million, are struggling to make ends meet, according to Istat, the national statistics agency on Tuesday.
義大利國家統計局Istat週二表示，全國6000萬人口中，有800萬人勉強收支相抵。
Of those, 3.4 million are living in absolute poverty, representing 5.7 per cent of the population, up from 5.2 per cent in 2010. The problem is worst in the sun-baked south, where one in four families now live below the poverty line.
其中有340萬人屬於絕對貧窮，佔總人口5.7%，超過2010年的5.2%。最嚴重的地區為陽光普照的義大利南部，有4分之1家庭處於貧窮線以下。
The technocrat government of Mario Monti is implementing wide-ranging economic reforms to try to tackle the country’s 1.9 trillion euro national debt, including raising taxes and cutting public services.
莫提所組的技術官僚政府正實施範圍廣泛的經濟改革，試圖處理該國1.9兆歐元的國債，手段包括增稅、削減公共服務。
The Monti government hopes to cut spending by €25bn in the next three years, as it tries to rein in the euro zone’s second highest public debt.
莫提政府希望能在未來3年內減少250億歐元的支出，控制住歐元區第二高的公共債務。
As businesses struggle to survive or fail altogether, the overall level of unemployment has surpassed 10 per cent, while among young people aged 15 to 24 it has reached 35 per cent.
當企業掙扎求生或集體倒閉時，義大利的整體失業率已超越10%，15至24歲的年輕人失業率達到35%。
新聞辭典
make（both）ends meet：片語，收支平衡，收支相抵。例句：They were finding it hard to make ends meet.（他們發現要收支相抵很困難。）
technocrat：名詞，技術專家官員。例句：Egypt’s President Morsi is seeking to form a technocrat government that will be able to implement his programme and polices. （埃及總統穆希尋求組成技術官僚政府，能夠施行他的計畫與政策。）
rein in：片語，駕馭、控制、統治。例句：The government had failed to rein in public spending.（政府無法控制公共支出。）
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