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投资
Investment
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
许多所谓的投资实际上只不过是合并和收购，当然合并和收购通常伴随着规模的缩小。
A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.
一个糟糕的投资是追求数量而不是质量。如果你想小心你的钱包，尤其是现在的经济形势，你必须选择主食。
Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
的确，总体而言，健康的投资回报无法在疲弱的经济中维持，当然，如果没有工作收入，就很难为退休或其他目标储蓄。
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
这项工作需要在技术和理论发展方面有相当大的投资，并需要很长的时间来进行，而没有取得迅速或短期成果的压力。
Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.
只有当保险公司不再强调人寿保险是一项好的投资，而是将其作为父亲对家庭未来福祉的象征性承诺而出售时，人寿保险才变得流行起来。
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。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Tax cuts are an investment in working families.
减税是对工薪家庭的投资。
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
我们需要加大对人类智力的投资。
Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.
真正的经济刺激来自真正的投资。
If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.
从历史上看，创造增长和财富的是创新和投资，以及规模的扩大——更多的客户。
love is an investment!
爱是一种投资!
Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
嗯，鞋子、手袋和手包通常是我最大的弱点——当我称它们为“投资品”时，我丈夫总是笑着说。