Australia’s economy has recovered fully from its Covid-19 recession, growing 1.8 per cent in the first three months of 2021 compared with the previous quarter thanks to a rebound in business investment and surging iron ore exports.
澳大利亚经济已经从新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠状病毒病）疫情造成的衰退中彻底复苏。得益于企业投资反弹和铁矿石出口飙升，2021年头3个月澳大利亚经济环比增长1.8%。
The better-than-expected growth means the economy is now 0.8 per cent larger than it was before coronavirus was first detected in China in December 2019, elevating Australia into a select group of nations that have grown over the past 15 months.
好于预期的经济增长意味着，与2019年12月中国首次发现新冠病毒之前相比，澳大利亚的经济体量扩大了0.8%，这使得澳大利亚迈入在过去15个月实现经济增长的国家行列。
But economists warned the slow pace of the country’s vaccine rollout and an outbreak of Covid-19 in Melbourne, which has forced a lockdown in the state of Victoria, posed a risk to the recovery and would dampen growth.
但经济学家警告称，澳大利亚开展疫苗接种的速度缓慢，以及墨尔本爆发的新冠疫情——此次爆发已迫使维多利亚州实施封锁——对经济复苏构成了风险，并可能抑制经济增长。