A raffle will determine which civil servants in a small Argentine town will receive their pay first, due to insufficient funds, its mayor announced Monday.
　　由于財(cái)政緊缺，阿根廷的一個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)鎮(zhèn)長(zhǎng)周一宣布全鎮(zhèn)公務(wù)員的工資將用抽簽這一方式?jīng)Q定發(fā)放的先后順序。
　　"We will draw lots to decide the (order) of payment," said mayor of Bialet Masse, Gustavo Pueyo, in a broadcast from Buenos Aires private radio station Radio Mitre.
　　“我們會(huì)抽簽來決定工資發(fā)放順序，”在布宜諾斯艾利斯地方廣播之聲節(jié)目中，比亞雷馬斯的鎮(zhèn)長(zhǎng)普耶歐說道。
　　Pueyo said the raffle was approved by national mayoral authorities and the first draw took place Friday, with 23 of the town’s 92 employees receiving their pay. A second raffle is slated for Monday.
　　普耶歐說這種做法已經(jīng)得到了國(guó)家上級(jí)單位的批準(zhǔn)。上周五舉行了第一次抽簽，鎮(zhèn)中92名公務(wù)員參與，其中23名抽到了自己的工資。下周一會(huì)舉行第二輪抽簽。
　　Home to 5,000 inhabitants, Bialet Masse is a tourist destination in Cordoba Province, 750 kilometers (466 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires.
　　比亞雷馬斯擁有5000名居民，是科爾多瓦省的旅游城市，坐落在在布宜諾斯艾利斯西北方向750公里（466英里）處。
　　Pueyo attributed the city’s insufficient funds to a drop in the funding usually received from the provincial government.
　　普耶歐說城市財(cái)政緊缺是省政府減少資金資助引起的。
　　Several Argentine provinces have faced economic difficulties due to the nation’s slowed economic growth.
　　由于國(guó)家經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展緩慢，阿根廷的很多省份都面臨著財(cái)務(wù)問題。
　　Growth slowed by half of one percent in May compared with the same period last year, marking the first downturn since 2009, according to official figures.
　　根據(jù)官方數(shù)據(jù)，五月份的財(cái)政增長(zhǎng)速度較去年同期減少了0.5%，是自2009年以來的首次跌落。
　　Argentina’s GDP has grown by an average eight percent per year since 2003, but analysts expect the economy will grow by less than half that in 2012.
　　自03年以來，阿根廷的GDP一直保持平均8%的增長(zhǎng)率，但分析人員預(yù)測(cè)2012年經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)率將低于4%。