Fed staff members, by contrast, think a mild recession is likely this year, Mr. Powell said.

鲍威尔说，与他形成对比，美联储工作人员则认为今年可能出现温和衰退。

Expectations of future price increases converged around central-bank targets, touching off an era of long expansions and mild recessions.

因此, 未来价格增长预期趋近中央银行指定的目标, 即价格会缓慢增长或下降。

I sort of feel like there's probably going to be a mild recession.

我感觉可能会出现温和的衰退。

Countries where unemployment is less volatile also tend to have milder recessions, points out Dario Perkins of TS Lombard, a financial-services firm.

金融服务公司TS Lombard的达里奥·珀金斯指出，失业率波动较小的国家，其经济衰退往往也更温和。

Holger Schmieding, an economist at Berenberg Bank, thinks that a loss of confidence will push the German economy into a mild recession in late 2011 and early 2012.

贝伦贝格银行经济学家Holger Schmieding认为，缺乏自信将导致德国经济于2011年底和2012年初进入缓慢衰退。

The IMF says ongoing debt problems in the region and the recent banking crisis in Cyprus are likely to keep the 17-nation eurozone in a mild recession until at least next year.

IMF说，由于该地区不断的债务问题和最近塞浦路斯的银行危机，欧元区17国可能至少在明年之前一直处于温和衰退中。

Few seem to expect a " no-landing" scenario, in which the economy remains untroubled by rising interest rates--a fashionable opinion just weeks ago, and one which itself supplanted a common view late last year that a mild recession was certain.

几乎没有人预计会出现" 不着陆" 的情况，即经济不受利率上升的困扰--几周前这种观点还很流行，去年年底这种观点也取代了温和衰退已成定局的普遍看法。