A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
货物
Goods
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
当货物不越过边境时,士兵就会越过边境。
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
墓志铭是一种已经停产的商品的迟来的广告。
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
贸易不是商品。贸易就是信息。货物放在仓库里,直到信息把它们移走。
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
有些东西是对立的,我们无法同时抓住它们,但是,如果我们过于谨慎,它们之间的距离可能会过得太远,两者都够不到。
Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
每一个零售商,当他们给商品定价时,都会考虑他们的总成本。当他们的成本上升时,他们会相应地给产品定价。
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.
毕竟,一个经济体真正想要的不是更多的投资本身,而是更好的投资。它希望资本流向那些能够通过提高生产率创造价值的企业——不是以股价上涨的形式,而是以更低成本、更多就业和工资上涨的形式创造更多商品。