A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.
每天工作八小时后，工人们需要加班三小时才能产生正常工作两小时的成果。
If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
如果借贷和消费这些钱带来的就业机会比我们现在的充分就业还要多的话。
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
反物质对我们来说不是能量的来源，它是一种储存能量的方法，紧凑但效率低下。
Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.
小企业是我们国家的经济驱动力，为我们的社区提供了所需的刺激。
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
这个国家仍然依赖石油。但正如我们现在所了解到的，石油正变得越来越稀缺。
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
富人越来越富，穷人越来越穷，这是整个文明世界都能听到的呼声。
The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
作为一个国家，我们越节能，就越不需要开发额外的能源。
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
富人通过不公平的组合，常常延长穷人的痛苦时期。
The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.
在我看来，那个只会安排一些事情来支撑股市的人，在我看来，谁也不是。
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
保守的观点是，经济就像天气一样，是自动运行的。
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
生产者剩余是一个方便的名称的属，其中地租是主要物种。
In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
人们花钱的方式和花钱的方式是完全一样的，花钱买的钱叫做利息。
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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。
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 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。
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。