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经济
Economy
The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.
经济不景气。我认为这影响到每一个人，从大电影制作人到小电影制作人。
The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
企业大规模裁员直接反映了共同基金的需求。
We've got to get things done. We've got an economy that is stabilized, but not moving ahead.
我们必须把事情做好。我们的经济已经稳定，但没有向前发展。
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
在富裕的社会里，奢侈品和必需品之间没有明显的区别。
Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
华尔街贪婪、鲁莽，并且非法经营。这很好。但是你会怎么做呢?
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
我认为大多数的制造业和采矿业应该在国家当局的管辖范围内。
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
我们认识到经济增长和环境保护可以而且应该携手并进。
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
通胀更低、更稳定，实际商业周期波动更温和。
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
钱总是具有传递性价值。钱多总比钱少好。
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
人不能靠交换物品而生存，而是靠生产物品而生存。他们以工作而不是贸易为生。
The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.
价值规律的目的是阐明商品的实际交换关系。
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
不管战争的政治原因是什么，其根本原因总是经济上的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。