But these demographic shifts set the boundaries for rich countries' medium-term future, including their ability to service their public debt.

但是，这些人口结构的变化为富裕国家的中期未来设置了障碍，包括他们偿还公共债务的能力。

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Comparing amount of cash generated to outstanding debt, known as the operating cash flow ratio, illustrates the company's ability to service its loans and interest payments.

把已创造现金数额与未偿还债务作比较，也就是经营现金流比可以说明该公司偿债付息的能力。

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To the extent that slow growth hurts tax revenues, and thus the ability to service public debt, markets may begin to take a less benign view of slow growers' bonds.

实际上，这两个问题是相互关联的，缓慢的经济增长会影响税收收入，从而使得偿还国债的能力受损，因而市场开始不看好经济增长缓慢国家的债券。

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This is what led to the downgrade, not whether the U.S. had the ability to service its debt today.

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When asked for his thoughts on Falkirk manager Steven Pressley's comments that clubs who tried to keep their accounts in the black were at an unfair advantage, Smith was keen to point out that it is all relative to a club's ability to service the debt that they accumulate.

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Yet mitigating the risk of default is the fact that Ecuador's ability to service its debt has improved in recent months, as high energy prices, increased taxation of the oil sector and the state's take-over of Block 15 previously run by a US company, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), are boosting the fiscal surplus and foreign reserves.

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