national debt

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT A country's national debt is all the money that the government of the country has borrowed and still owes. 國(guó)債[usu sing]
He talked about the importance of reducing the national debt. 他談了減少?lài)?guó)債的重要性。
No wonder then that the national debts of all the civilized countries in the world are reaching astronomical proportions. 難怪世界上所有文明國(guó)家的國(guó)債都近乎天文數(shù)字。