the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue;

"the company operated at a loss last year"

"the company operated in the red last year"

it「s hard to be thrilled with your job if the company you work for is struggling to succeed, or feels stuck and irrelevant.i」m not talking about obvious problems -- red ink and layoffs.

如果你所效力的公司正为成功而奋斗，或者感觉停滞不前、脱离(跟不上)时代，那么你是很难为工作而兴奋的，我还不是在谈论那些明显的问题——赤字和裁员。

now, with the red ink showing no sign of stopping, the postal service is hoping to ramp up a cost-cutting program that is already eliciting yelps of pain around the country.

现在，由于赤字没有消停的迹象，邮局希望加快加快一项成本缩减计划，该计划已经在全国范围内引起了很大不便。

in their place were sheep, their white wool blotched with blue or red ink to mark them as someone’s property.

取而代之的是羊群，它们白色的毛绒上星星点点的蓝色或者红色痕迹是为了区别它们各自所属的主人。

citi is certainly more stable than it was six months ago, the red ink notwithstanding.

尽管仍旧赤字连连，相较六个月以前，花旗已经平稳了许多。

despite the enticing picture painted by the president, the incoming republican governors of those two states see nothing but red ink when they hear the phrase 「high-speed rail」.

尽管总统画下了诱人的画卷，但是这两个州新上任的共和党州长听到「高铁」这个词是可是除了赤字之外什么也没看见。

with professional advice, you can often dramatically lessen the amount of nail-biting and red ink you have to endure before the business takes hold.

在公司站稳脚之前，有了专家建议你通常就可以大大减少束手无策和财政赤字的困扰。

yet it's an awful paper that i would have shredded in a sea of red ink if it had come to me.

即便这样 这还是一片非常糟糕的论文如果让我审核的话它一定会被淹没在红墨水的海洋里去.

most of the red ink results from the enormous hole the recession has punched in gdp and consequently in tax revenue, the cost of bailing out the financial system, and interest on the mounting debt.

大部分的财政赤字产生于由经济衰退造成的巨大gdp缺口，以及因此减少的税收、救助金融系统花费的成本和因债款增加而增加的利息。

there is red ink everywhere but some have spilled much more than expected.

虽然到处都能看到红墨水，但是有一些溅出来的还是比其他的要多。

half of next year’s budget tightening comes from one-off measures, says the agency, and this year’s red ink cannot be explained away by a mild recession or support for banks.

下一年的半数预算缩减来自一次性的政策，机构表示今年的赤字不能被一场温和的衰退（原译紧缩）或者对银行的支持所解释。

as hard as mr obama and his advisers have tried to remind voters of the fiscal situation that he inherited, the president is now seen to 「own」 the economy and the tide of red ink that america faces.

尽管奥巴马先生以及他的顾问已经竭尽全力提醒投票人他接手时的财务状况，但现在美国面临的经济和巨大的财政赤字被视为是由奥巴马总统造成的。

but a treasury drowning in red ink is likely to score the costs as actual and the savings as notional.

但是很有可能，沉浸在一片赤字之中的财政部认为，花钱才是真的，省钱纯粹是理论上的说法。