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经济
Economy
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.
一个成功的经济发展战略必须注重提高该地区劳动力的技能,降低经商成本,并提供企业在当今全球经济中竞争和繁荣所需的资源。
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
在生活的各个方面,包括经济方面,我们总是被要求做正确的事情。在许多情况下,在市场体系中,允许人们有很大的自由选择,人们可能会过度。
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
如果你问一位经济学家是什么推动了经济增长,重要的是农业机械化、大规模制造业等领域的重大进步。问题是,我们的社会不是围绕着这样做来组织的。
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
在一个完全把劳动置于资本支配之下的社会和产业组织中,资本的积累必然是迅速的,财富的分配也必然是不平等的。
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.
因此,我们的路线是明确的;如果我们想结束或减少贫困,我们就应该进口一切我们可以使用或销售的东西,以便我们可以用我们失业的双手来生产我们用来支付这些进口的货物。
Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.
希腊的债务全部以欧元计价,但尚不清楚这些债务中有多少由谁持有。因此,国家破产的后果将是无法估量的。希腊的系统重要性不亚于一家大型银行。
The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
市场经济的首要原则是它由许多小买家和卖家组成,这意味着相当程度的公平。另一个基本的市场原则是成本内部化在生产者价格中。
For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.
因为,如果真的有足够多的人相信经济增长应该停止,如果他们按照这一信念采取行动,那么,其他数十亿人就可能被剥夺了获得更多幸运者目前享有的机遇的任何现实希望。
A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.
储蓄水平的上升可以暂时减少总体活动,但只有持续的高储蓄水平,才有可能实现有助于产出长期增长的持续高水平商业投资。
Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.
即使美元在未来几个月确实下跌,进出口对更具竞争力的美元反应的延迟,将意味着来自这一来源的总需求的增长可能在一年或更长时间内不会发生。
I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.
我认为如果你超越一年——如果这一直持续到系统的年,我认为有风险,因此,我们可以有一个负面反应在债券市场,这将抵消试图做的好。
You talk to any of the job creators, and they'll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is the debt. And so high levels of indebtedness are going to lead to high levels of taxation, which lead to high level of unemployment.
你和任何一个创造就业机会的人交谈,他们会告诉你他们最担心的事情之一是债务。因此,高负债将导致高税收,高失业率。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。