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经济
Economy
What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.
我担心的是无休止的借贷，这不仅会损害我们今天的经济，而且会损害未来的经济。因为我们知道我们现在所做的决定会对我们的未来产生巨大的影响，而债务真的已经超出了我们的控制。
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
我们将有更大的官僚机构、更大的工会和更大的国有企业。由于惩罚性的税收和监管，成为企业家将更加困难。成功的报酬将被没收，以实现更大的收入平等。
In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.
在我看来，政治的未来无疑是社会自由主义与经济保守主义的结合。这意味着我们必须向社会自由主义者提出一个经济上的理由，那就是投票给我们是可以的。但我们不会同时让经济陷入困境。
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.
在很长一段时间里，许多人认为会出现自动调整，并指望新兴国家工资的快速增长、我们在技术上的进步以及防止交通中断的运输成本。但这种让人安心的分析已经过时了。
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
今天，我们站在从领土国家通往国际社会的桥梁上。在政治上，我们仍然受到领土国家概念的支配;在经济和技术上，我们生活在全球通讯和全球市场的支持下。
Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score?
贷款机构在发放贷款前会从多个角度考察潜在借款人:一个家庭需要将多少收入用于偿还债务?首付是多少?借款人是否有一份收入稳定的工作?借款人的信用评分是多少?
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
我们必须找到新的土地，从那里我们可以很容易地获得原材料，同时开发廉价的奴隶劳动力，可以从土著居民的殖民地。殖民地也将为我们工厂生产的剩余货物提供一个垃圾场。
Let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good. Go around the country, go to the industrial towns, go to the farms, and you will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in my lifetime---nor indeed ever in the history of this country.
让我们坦率地说。我们大多数人从来没有过这么好的生活。走遍全国，去工业城镇，去农场，你会看到一个前所未有的繁荣，这在我的一生中从未有过，在这个国家的历史上也从未有过。
We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.
我们需要有一个支持经济增长的政策落实到位,提供人们希望和为企业提供机会扩大和让他们有信心世界会是什么样子在未来两或三或四年的经济政策。
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
使我们的军备尽可能迅速地提高到某一水平的必要性必须使人们注意到这样一个想法，即在外汇方面获得尽可能大的回报，从而通过出口尽可能保证原材料供应。
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
可能有一些落后的国家，那里的人民群众处于勉强糊口的水平，由于战争或部分作物歉收，那里的生活水平必须大幅度降低，但在我们这些繁荣的国家，情况肯定不是这样。
If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.
如果有人知道世界上任何地方有一个创造就业机会的人正在寻找一个高税收、复杂的环境或者一个高监管的环境，我愿意见见他们，因为我还没有遇到一个创造就业机会的人在寻找这样的工作，而这正是我们所拥有的。
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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。
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。
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。
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。