Japan has suffered its sharpest fall in exports on record as even previously robust markets hunker down against the shockwaves of the global financial crisis .
日本的出口遭到有史以来最大幅度的下降,连此前强劲的市场在全球金融危机的冲击下也采取守势。
And the thing is , we don 't have to hunker down in the dark and forsake our worldly pleasures to be sustainable .
事情是,我们不必躲在黑暗中,就为了能够“持续发展”的口头快感。
But much depends on whether households and companies ignore the fear in capital markets as an obscure event with little bearing on their prosperity and prospects or whether they see this as a portent of harder times to come and hunker down .