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经济
Economy
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things, which enable its citizens to live, but the things, which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
一个国家所谓的重要经济利益，不是使其公民能够生存的东西，而是使其能够发动战争的东西。汽油比小麦更有可能成为国际冲突的原因。
Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.
听着，关于农业的一件事是我们失去了制造业，我们在海外失去了很多工作，我们的很多产业。世界上我们最不应该做的就是失去生产食物的能力。
Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.
我们的通信服务收入增长是由数据、互联网和国际业务的持续强劲业绩推动的，这三个领域是通信服务中增长最快、利润最高的领域。
I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.
当然，我不能代表他们说话，但我相信，大多数经济学家都会接受这样的观点:虽然你有时可以凭借纯粹的运气获得成功，但你不能一直这样做，除非你愿意投入资源。
I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
我想谈谈自由市场。计算机时代的信息是地球上仅存的最后一个真正的自由市场，除了那些土著人还在生存的自由市场。这基本上是有限的。
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
我学习经济学并将其作为我的职业有两个原因。这门课过去和现在都充满了智力上的吸引力和挑战性，尤其是对那些在理论推理和定量分析方面有品位和天赋的人来说。
From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
从手机到电脑，质量在提高，成本在下降，因为公司都在努力以最优惠的价格向公众提供最好的产品。但遗憾的是，这一理念在我们的医疗保险体系中缺失了。
If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
如果我们现在不采取行动加强社会保障，那么许多人今天所依赖的体系将无法兑现对未来退休人员的承诺，并将给我们的子孙后代带来沉重的税收负担。
In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.
在网络社区中，社区成员之间存在着这种社会经济。有些人拥有身份是因为他们制作了很酷的皮肤，或者那是一个访问量很大的好网站，但那里没有真正的游戏玩法。
As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.
正如你们所知，社会保障功能的前提是，今天的工人将帮助为退休人员的福利提供资金，而这些工人将得到下一代工人的支持，这些工人将向同一体系支付工资。
So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.
所以我们想要改变税收制度。我们希望它是公平的，我们希望看到一些税收减免，因为当人们口袋里有一点额外的钱时，他们会做三件事:储蓄、消费或投资。
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
当国家遭受严重饥荒时，我在一所大学教书。人们饿死了，我感到非常无助。作为一名经济学家，我的工具箱里没有工具来解决这种情况。
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
在有限的世界里，物质消费的无限增长是不可能的。
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
经济增长和环境保护并不矛盾。如果你着眼于长期的繁荣，它们是同一枚硬币的两面。
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
学习经济学的目的不是为了获得一套现成的经济问题的答案，而是学习如何避免被经济学家所欺骗。
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
永远不要让经济因素独自决定你的职业或你如何度过大部分时间。
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
你可能会说经济史是人们学习管理风险的历史。
We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.
我们需要认识到，真正重要的不是购买越来越多的消费品，而是家人、朋友，以及知道我们在用生命做一些有价值的事情。帮助减少世界贫困的可怕后果应该是重新评估的一部分。