A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.
非流动性资产的购买都与资本有关，并鼓励私人资本进入。
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
这个大陆发展的最大障碍在于缺乏资金。
Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.
价格之所以一直上涨，是因为控制供应的人认为他们能够保持住价格。
It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
当你的邻居失业时，就是经济衰退;当你失去你的爱时，那是一种抑郁。
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
我们已经看到对外国石油的依赖和依赖对我们经济造成的影响。
Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.
我们的大部分资金都流向了各个组织，然后用于撬动私营部门。
But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
虽然我喜欢所有这些课程，但经济学有着不可抗拒的吸引力。
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
你在这个社会的遗产之一就是有机会在经济上独立。
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
正如我们需要繁荣的经济一样，我们也需要善良和体面的繁荣。
Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.
让我们回到社保的初衷。这是一份保险合同。
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
公众一直被灌输自由市场是人类的灵丹妙药的观点。
It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.
是时候永久废除人们留给子女的财产税了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。