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经济
Economy
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
给大公司减税，这样钱就能以额外工作的形式流向普通大众。
And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
我的经济政策的基石，当我第一次当选的时候，就是对每个交税的人减税。
It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
只有小企业主才能提供真正有利可图和可靠的纳税材料。他天生擅长纳税。
I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
我认为，如果我们不让这些政治家走到一起，我们将面临历史上最可预见的经济危机。
If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.
如果我们能够让人们在规模足够大的情况下获得可观的回报率，那么我们都可以通过做好事做得很好。
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
每个人都想以国家为代价生活。他们忘记了国家想要牺牲所有人的利益。
Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
在经济生态系统中，大企业并不是唯一的。任何人都不应该因为不公平的结构而落后。
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
养老金改革的成本可能是玻利维亚经济现代化进程中犯下的最大错误。
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
每个经济体都是不确定的。将这种经济或任何经济称为“不确定”，都是一种不必要的、悲观的冗余。
Everyone's giving suggestions on improving economy. One suggestion to them: Politics dictates policy, not good economics.
每个人都在提出改善经济的建议。给他们的一个建议是:政治决定政策，而不是好的经济。
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
在每一个商业国家，尽管自命享有平等权利，但少数人的提高必然会使多数人感到沮丧。
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
名义上，每八名联邦雇员中就有一名行政人员，这一比例将使许多私营企业破产。
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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。
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 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。
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。