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预算
Budget
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
平衡名义预算不会解决任何问题，而试图实现这种虚假的平衡将会带来很多麻烦。
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
我们正处于财政崩溃的边缘，除非我们平衡预算，这意味着一些非常非常艰难的决定。
Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves.
由于预算削减，音乐是很容易消除的东西之一，但重要的是给孩子们表达自己的途径。
That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.
这是制作高成本电影的好处之一。你和经验丰富的人一起工作，你会学到很多东西。
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
在预算削减的今天，我们不能忘记，基础科学是信息时代科学创新和经济增长的基石。
Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
三年后，从筹集资金到制作特效，我们做了很多体力活，终于拼凑出了这部低成本电影。
I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.
我不受预算限制。我被我想要讲述的故事所束缚，它的成本取决于工作室的经济状况。
Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.
每个人都有预算，我不在乎你是谁。但他们说，如果我们在夏季中期参加一场三角旗比赛，他们将通过增加工资得到一些帮助。
And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.
第四，我们有一个重要的团队，负责跟踪项目和预算，确保它们与准备和预警、反情报和对作战作战人员的支持的需求保持一致。
We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
我们相信一些基本的人类原则——每个人都应该有机会，不仅仅是生存，而是超越上帝赋予他们的天赋和能力。这些价值观应该反映在我们的预算中。
In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
在预算紧张的时期，必须做出艰难的选择。我们必须确保我们非常有限的资源用于优先事项。我认为，我们的当务之急应该是投资于我们孩子的教室和他们的未来。
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
作为父母，我们需要把孩子送回“老式”的户外夏令营，随着对体育和学术性夏令营的需求上升，户外夏令营的数量一直在下降。我们需要反对削减公共公园项目的预算，反对关闭公共游泳池和游乐场。
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It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
这显然是一个预算。里面有很多数字。
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
有些夫妻每个月都会仔细检查他们的预算。其他人只是浏览一下。
How many people out there really set a budget?
有多少人真正制定了预算?
My buildings are all on budget.
我的建筑都在预算之内。
This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.
这种观众感兴趣的迹象对任何预算水平的恐怖片制作者都是有益的。
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
预算告诉我们什么是我们负担不起的，但它不会阻止我们购买它。