This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  • -- Barney Frank 巴尼·弗兰克

这一法案在立法上相当于漏洞。它会产生短期高点,但会对系统造成长期损害,而且启动成本很高。

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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

经济萧条不能通过立法行动或行政声明来治愈。经济创伤必须通过经济主体的细胞- -生产者和消费者本身- -的行动来愈合。

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

我父亲认为在山里散步相当于去做礼拜。