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公司
Corporations
I've been around the bend in corporations.
我在公司里工作过。
One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.
四分之一的公司不交税。
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
公司不能叛国，不能被取缔，不能被逐出教会，因为他们没有灵魂。
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
我不认为餐费有任何理由扣除。我赞成把卡路里和公司分开。
I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
我经常说，股东应该对公司对公众信任的反应程度感到非常负责。
If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
如果我能给公司注入大量的人文思想，那将会改变很多。
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
公司是社会组织，是男男女女实现或未能实现有目的和富有成效的生活的舞台。
We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.
我们正在经历艰难的经济时期，但情况正在好转，不仅大公司的指标在改善，小企业的指标也在改善。
What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?
现在不公平的是公司缴纳的税越来越少，这意味着你和我缴纳的税越来越多，因为我们扎根于某个地方，他们有我们的地址，对吧?
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
一个自由的公众作为听众是有趣的。正是出于这个原因，企业才如此努力地与文化机构结盟。
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.
企业希望，正确的理念能在一夜之间扭转局面。这就是你可能会称之为“垃圾饮食法”的方法:让自己饿几天，你就会瘦一辈子。
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.
学院里有很强的女性导师。企业似乎更愿意抵制提高女性地位的平权行动，董事会和股东对这种做法也更宽容。
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Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
为非作非为的力量来自于金钱利益来自于他们能够控制的纸币，来自于享有特权的众多公司……都是为了他们的利益而被雇佣的。
Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.
以下是公民联盟的实际影响。联合公民组织的意思是，公司投入数亿美元在电视广告、广播广告和其他形式的广告上，以击败那些站出来挑战他们的候选人。
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
企业担心的是现在被称为“商品化”的现象。这个词的意思很简单，就是把特定产品的市场转变成商品市场。商品市场的特点是价格和利润率下降，竞争加剧，进入壁垒降低。
I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
我怀疑，许多企业已经开始认识到，它们在社区生活中扮演着重要的角色，而拨出资金支持当地团体，有助于它们履行这一职能，同时也改善了它们的形象。
There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.
这个善良的人与体制作斗争是有原因的。我就是喜欢。这就是“速度”的含义。他是一个非常专注的人，有一颗金子般的心，公司想要压榨他，利用他的技能让他们赚更多的钱。