金融英语学习：in nominal terms

会计考友

　　To economists, China overtaking Japan as the world's second largest economy in nominal terms is almost meaningless.
　　对经济学家来说，中国经济在面值上超越日本、成为全球第二大经济体几乎是没有意义的。
　　In more economically important purchasing power terms China overtook Japan almost a decade ago, and the exact moment when China's nominal US dollar gross domestic product surpasses Japan's has a lot to do with exchange rates and technical statistical revisions.
　　用经济上更重要的购买力指标来衡量，中国几乎在10年前就已超越日本，而按美元计算的中国国内生产总值(GDP)面值超越日本的精确时刻，在很大程度上与汇率和技术性的统计修正相关。