A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
我们认为税收不应该增加。他们应该下去。我们认为人口普查不应该被削弱。
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
如果你完全不识字，每天只靠一美元生活，全球化的好处永远不会降临到你身上。
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
西方的所有权和私营化概念与之发生了冲突。于是土地开始交换。
Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.
将社会保障私有化不仅不是解决社会保障问题的办法，而且会加剧这一问题。
Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
首要任务是赢得反恐战争，提供税收减免，以保持我们的经济强劲增长。
Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.
贷款申请将根据一个国家的社会公正记录和经济效率来判断。
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.
在华尔街，欺诈性计划往往在经济繁荣时期蓬勃发展，而在经济形势艰难时就会崩溃。
I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.
我将努力恢复我国预算的财政责任，并使经济更加强劲。
Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.
让我们停止谈论新的税收，开始谈论创造新的纳税人，这基本上意味着就业。
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
在我们的经济复苏方案中，我们提出了新的问责制和透明度标准，我们希望这些标准现在能够得到实施。
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.
我们不能继续下去。我们的养老金和员工的医疗保健费用将使这个城市破产。
Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
规模经济是一件好事。如果我们没有他们，我们还会住在帐篷里吃水牛。
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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。
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。
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。
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 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。
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。