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hā ，nà nǐ jiù wèn duì rén le ，wǒ lái bāng nǐ kēpǔ yīxià ā ，tiánjìng ne shì yīzhǒng gǔlǎo de bǐsài xiàngmù ，qíshí zài gǔ xīlà jiù yǒu le 。nà hòulái yīnwèi tǐyù xiàngmù de jìfēn fāngshì bù yīyàng ，jiù fēn chéng le tián hé jìng liǎng gè dà xiàng 。

Ha. You've asked the right person. Here's a bit of popular science for you. Field and track is an ancient sporting contest, actually it already existed in ancient Greece. Then later, because sporting events have different ways of scoring, so it was divided into two main sections, track and field.

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奇怪，人家要借钱给他还不要，希腊人脑子烧坏了吗？

qíguài ，rénjiā yào jiè qián gěi tā hái bù yào ，xīlà rén nǎozi shāo huài le ma ？

That's strange, people want to lend them money and they don't want it, have the Greeks lost their minds?

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只看眼前的话，当然会觉得这是个很冷血的条件，希腊政府大概也不愿意接受，所以才叫人民公投吧。

zhī kàn yǎnqián dehuà ，dāngrán huì juéde zhè shì gè hěn lěngxiě de tiáojiàn ，xīlà zhèngfǔ dàgài yě bù yuànyì jiēshòu ，suǒyǐ cái jiào rénmín gōngtóu ba 。

If you just look at the here and now of it, of course they look like very cold-blooded conditions. The Greek government was probably unwilling to accept too, so that's why they called for a public referendum.

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现在看起来，要骂希腊，甚至骂其他被新闻媒体称为“欧猪五国”的国家好像很容易，但到底是什么让这些国家陷入这样的困境呢？

xiànzài kàn qǐlái ，yào mà xīlà ，shènzhì mà qítā bèi xīnwénméitǐ chēngwéi “ōuzhū wǔ guó ”de guójiā hǎoxiàng hěn róngyì ，dàn dàodǐ shì shénme ràng zhèxiē guójiā xiànrù zhèyàng de kùnjìng ne ？

Now it looks pretty easy to scold Greece, or even to scold any of the five European "PIIGS" economies, but what was it that led to these countries getting into these problems?

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我觉得事情没有这么黑白分明的，当然希腊的财政体质不好，再加上政府隐匿公债数字，假造数据，使得金融海啸之后整个情况一发不可收拾。

wǒ juéde shìqing méiyǒu zhème hēibáifēnmíng de ，dāngrán xīlà de cáizhèng tǐzhì bù hǎo ，zài jiāshang zhèngfǔ yǐnnì gōngzhài shùzì ，jiǎzào shùjù ，shǐde jīnróng hǎixiào zhīhòu zhěnggè qíngkuàng yīfābù kěshōushi 。

I think it's not as black and white as all that. Of course, Greek's financial system is bad and the government was hiding the amount of public debt and faking figures, leading to the entire situation after the global financial crisis to snowball.

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冰岛是另外一回事，冰岛倒的是银行，希腊是国家欠了太多债。

Bīngdǎo shì lìngwài yī huí shì ，Bīngdǎo dào de shì yínháng ，xīlà shì guójiā qiàn le tài duō zhài 。

Iceland is a whole other kettle of fish. In Iceland it was the bank that failed, in Greece it was that the country was too deep in debt.

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我要说的是，问题不会只是希腊一方面的，还有许多面向值得我们去发掘。

wǒ yào shuō de shì ，wèntí búhuì zhǐshì xīlà yīfāngmiàn de ，háiyǒu xǔduō miànxiàng zhídé wǒmen qù fājué 。

What I'm trying to say is, the problem isn't just with Greece. There are other factors worth exploring.

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