Sargent 's work on expectations and monetary policy has fresh relevance for western economies thrown into uncharted territory .

对当今陷入未知境地的西方经济体来说，萨金特对预期和货币政策的研究具有新的意义。

As prof sargent himself observed , today 's economic developments such as the eurozone crisis are driven strongly by expectations .

正如萨金特本人所观察到的，欧元区危机等当今的经济事态受到了预期的强劲推动。

According to his colleague thomas sargent , lucas was concerned that such tests rejected " too many really good models " .

按照他的同事托马斯萨金特（thomassargent）的说法，卢卡斯担心那样的测试会否决掉“太多很棒的模型”。

The survey 's results for toyota last year were gathered during the height of its recall crisis for unintended acceleration and may have affected consumer attitudes , mr. sargent said .

萨金特说，去年调查结果出来时，正值丰田因意外加速问题处于产品召回危机的最严重时期，这可能影响了客户对它的看法。

Hyundai was hurt because it had two popular cars , the sonata sedan and elantra compact , that were new to the market , mr. sargent said .

萨金特说，现代排名下滑是因为索纳塔（sonata）轿车和伊兰特（elantra）紧凑型车这两种一经推出便颇受欢迎的新车型。