A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.
在安然事件中，我们一直在平衡我们的头寸。
The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
世界银行现在是债务危机的罪魁祸首。
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
残酷的现实是我们必须平衡预算。
Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.
外贸明显降低了我们购买产品的成本。
My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.
我的感觉是，经济焦虑意味着选举的不稳定性。
Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.
选择固定利率抵押贷款，而不是可调利率抵押贷款。
The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
大都市一直是货币经济的中心。
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
今天的投资者不会从昨天的增长中获利。
What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.
我想做的是看看我们能否平衡预算。
It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.
是时候最大限度地优先考虑我们的医疗保健资金了。
Index investing outperforms active management year after year.
指数投资的表现年年好于积极管理。
Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.
减轻贫困将是世行的首要目标。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。