California is now the sixth-largest economy in the world, surpassing France, thanks to a robust¹ state economy and strong U.S. dollar.

由于当地经济增长强劲、美元走强，加利福尼亚州现已超越法国，成为世界第六大经济体。

California was the world's eighth-largest economy in 2014, Irena Asmundson, chief economist² of the California Department of Finance, said in a phone interview last Friday. That's slightly larger than France's gross domestic product.

在上周五的一则电话采访中，加州财政部首席经济学家伊雷娜·艾斯门德逊表示，该州2015年的地区生产总值达到2.46万亿美元。这一数字略高于法国同期的国内生产总值。

France is the world's seventh-largest economy with a growth domestic product of $2.42 trillion, and India is the eighth-largest with $2.09 trillion, according to the latest International Monetary³ Fund data.

根据国际货币基金组织的最新数据，法国是世界上第七大经济体，国内生产总值达到了2.42万亿美元，印度是第八大经济体，国内生产总值达到了2.09万亿美元。

The only countries with higher GDP output than California now are the US as a whole, China, Japan, Germany and the UK.

目前，GDP产出高于加州的国家只有美国、中国、日本、德国和英国。

California is home to diverse strong economies, including Silicon⁴ Valley and Hollywood. Manufacturing and agriculture have performed well despite a severe drought, Asmundson said.

艾斯门德逊表示，加州拥有强劲、多元的经济，包括硅谷和好莱坞。尽管遭遇严重的干旱，但该州的制造业和农业表现良好。

According to Bloomberg, California is home to four of the 10 largest companies in the world, including Facebook and Google parent company, Alphabet Inc.

据彭博社报道，全球最大的10家企业中有4家总部位于加州，其中包括脸书和谷歌的母公司Alphabet。

The most populous⁵ U.S. state has outpaced the rest of the country on job growth, California's finance department said in its June bulletin. Gross state product was $2.46 trillion in 2015, with 4.1 percent of growth in real terms, it added.

加州财政部门在其6月公报中指出，加州的就业增长为全美最高，并称加州2015年GDP为2.46万亿美元，实质增长4.1%。

U.S. gross domestic product grew by 2.4 percent in 2015. Growth slowed to 0.8 percent in the first quarter of 2016.

2015年美国GDP增长2.4%，2016年第一季的增速放缓至0.8%。