A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
旨在减少生产制成品困难的技术和科学的积累，不仅对其集中的国家有利;遥远的王国也分享了它的优势。
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
如果一种商品毫无用处，换句话说，如果它对我们的满足感毫无帮助，那么它就没有可交换的价值，无论它有多么稀缺，也无论购买它需要多少劳动力。
If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.
如果世界市场相信我们是认真对待能源独立的，我们要利用我们现有的所有资源，投机者就会停止投机，他们会在我们开采石油的时候开始投机。
Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
在过去的十年里，经济学家们似乎在经济政策上有着广泛的共识，货币主义者和凯恩斯主义者之间的旧分歧显然是由事件解决的。但过去两年的大衰退改变了一切。
There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.
社会保障有很大的改善空间。我们欠孩子们最健全的经济体系。他们将为此付出整个工作生涯。他们应该受到保护。为了我们的子孙后代。
One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.
我们必须面对的一个关键问题是非法移民，因为这是一个多头蛇怪，它影响我们的经济、我们的医疗保健、我们的教育体系、我们的国家安全，以及我们当地的犯罪行为。
Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.
最后，将国内能源生产视为经济需要和就业创造者。钻探、水力压裂、租赁和许可，以各种方式释放出我们一直拒绝给予自己的巨大能源资源中的就业潜力。
At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.
银行业的核心是一种自杀式战略。银行从公众或彼此的电话中收取资金，从中提取自己的报酬，然后将其余资金锁定在不稳定、不安全、流动性差的贷款中，而这些贷款有时在没有公共援助的情况下是无法赎回的。
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
全国的工人们已经厌倦了等待企业产业纠正他们的经济错误，减轻他们的社会痛苦，并赋予他们政治权利。他们对公平待遇感到绝望，决定为自己做点什么。
And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.
如果一个人把自己看作是一种资本品，即使这并不损害他的自由，也可能使他降低身份……通过对自己的投资，人们可以扩大自己的选择范围。这是自由人增进福利的一种方式。
The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.
根本情况的全部变化并没有得到正视，因此，我们在某种程度上受到与另一个世界有关的思想的指导。我们做了许多不必要的事情，一些是不明智的，一些是疯狂的。
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.
但这还不够:要维持能源安全，就需要一个供应体系，为冲击提供缓冲。它需要庞大而灵活的市场。承认整个能源供应链需要保护这一事实是很重要的。
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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。
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。
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
经济不是一个抽象概念。经济是由人组成的，只有当人们感到安全并享有合理的自由时，经济才会增长。
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。
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。