A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
我们在第四季度加快了资本支出，特别是在国际和下一代网络部署方面。这不仅将维持未来的收入增长，还将大幅降低所有通信服务的成本。
Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital.
你更愿意哪一个，资本在你的边界上排列，试图进入你的国家还是试图离开你的国家?我们是这个星球的资本磁石，我们不仅是人民的救世主，不仅是自由的救世主，也是资本的救世主。
The term free market"is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is "lawless market." In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits), while socializing its costs (like pollution).
“自由市场”一词实际上是一种委婉说法。极右派这个词的真正含义是“无法无天的市场”。在一个无法无天的市场中，企业家可以将市场的利益(利润)私有化，而将其成本(如污染)社会化。
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
当地球在太空中旋转时，从北极上方看到的景象将包括世界上大部分的财富——大部分食物、生产机器、医生、工程师和教师。从相反的角度看，世界上大多数的穷人都是如此。
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
除了减轻病人的痛苦，还需要研究来帮助减轻由诸如骨质疏松症、关节炎、糖尿病、帕金森症和阿尔茨海默症、癌症、心脏病和中风等慢性病造成的巨大经济和社会负担。
Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
世界银行的具体作用是在紧急情况发生后立即提供财政援助，因为你需要重新连接水，你需要重新连接电，你需要道路，你需要桥梁，这必须紧急完成。
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.
现在，现代经济有一个非常有效的机制来决定工资是否真的过高:这就是所谓的自由市场。毕竟，大多数人的工资都是这样确定的，包括大联盟棒球运动员和欧洲足球运动员。
Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.
一般来说，我们懂这个笑话的意思。我们知道自由市场毫无意义。我们知道，关键是要利用这个系统，打败市场，或者至少找到一个愿意付给你很多钱的人，因为他们相信有免费的午餐。
So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.
因此，当我们真正解决贫困等问题时，如果不解决其中一些问题的真正驱动力，也就是稳定的家庭，就无法做到这一点。这就是为什么这些问题对我来说很重要。他们不是轻浮。它们是关键的经济问题。
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
我继承了一个病态的经济，并把一个健康的经济传给了下一代。但我始终感到遗憾的是，在这期间，我没有足够的资源实施我非常关心的教育和社会变革;我只做了一个开始，这是不够的。
The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.
强制法庭的法令不需要符合真正的工资标准，即社会劳动的最终生产力。它将在分配中引入一种真正任意的元素，具有极大的最终权力来歪曲自然系统。
Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.
我们在这些评论中的目的，不仅是要说明政治经济学迄今所取得的缓慢进展，并提出可以加速其进展的方法，而且还要警告读者注意下面这篇论文的性质。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。