A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
但我更希望学生们去大学学习，并为新经济秩序的严酷做好准备，而不是向他们收费来资助足球项目，这非但不能增强学术使命，反而是对它的嘲弄。
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
如果我从任何人那里偷钱，仅仅转移财产可能不会造成任何伤害;他可能感觉不到损失，或者这可能阻止他不当使用这笔钱。但我无法不这样对待人类，我使自己不诚实。
You know, if we're going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost.
你知道，如果我们要降低汽油的价格，你必须有三件事。你必须有一个很大的储备，你必须有能力从储备中迅速开发石油，你必须能够以相对较低的成本生产石油。
If capital is growing rapidly, wages may rise; the profit of capital rises incomparably more rapidly. The material position of the worker has improved, but at the cost of his social position. The social gulf that divides him from the capitalist has widened.
如果资本快速增长，工资可能会上涨;资本的利润增长速度是无可比拟的。工人的物质地位提高了，但是以他的社会地位为代价的。他与资本家之间的社会鸿沟扩大了。
Lawmakers who interfere with commerce and the normal creation of jobs in an economy run the risk of doing harm rather than good. Unintended consequences from regulating or legislating to achieve a goal can occur and cause havoc in the markets or an economy.
干预商业和经济中正常创造就业机会的立法者冒着弊大于利的风险。通过监管或立法来实现目标可能会产生意想不到的后果，并在市场或经济中造成严重破坏。
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
市场倾向于以个体劳动者的价值作为工资支付。但上一次研究的案例表明，法律在实际操作中究竟有多准确?这不是诚实的律法，反被败坏，以致造成不诚实的结果吗?
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
全国洪水保险计划是一个宝贵的工具，以解决全国各地由于洪水造成的损失。它确保企业和家庭能够获得在公开市场上无法获得的负担得起的洪水保险。
You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.
你必须取消对富人的一些税收优惠，你必须削减一些福利。因为，除非我们做所有这些事情，否则它就是不管用。好的戏剧和好的政治不一定是好的经济政策。
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?
我们是否有兴趣通过收入再分配和阶级斗争来治疗贫困和经济停滞的症状，还是想通过促进促进繁荣的促进增长的政策来解决贫困和经济停滞的根源?
Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.
尽管凯恩斯主义的财政政策可能很受欢迎，但许多经济学家对其是否有效持怀疑态度。他们认为，对经济进行微调实际上是一项不可能完成的任务，而财政刺激计划通常规模太小，实施得太晚，无法发挥作用。
If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.
如果我们想让世界变得更美好，我们必须把它当作一个整体。如果我们想让经济增长无处不在，我们就必须让人民成为我们的伙伴。如果我们要使发展进程可持续，我们就必须与环境合作。
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.
斯德哥尔摩成千上万市民的经济行为中微妙而复杂的竞争与合作模式对经济学家提出了一个挑战，这个挑战可能与物理学家和化学家的挑战一样复杂。
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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。
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。
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。
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。