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经济
Economy
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
你有没有听过某个国家的人物告诉你，最近发生的所有危机都不是经济危机，而是文化危机?
All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
任何国家强行分配财富的立法试验都失败了。
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
全球化创造了经济政策，跨国公司主宰着我们，结果是痛苦和失业。
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
我们看到燃油价格下降，旅游数据也不错，所以航空股上涨也就不足为奇了。
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
如果没有一个几乎史无前例的长期繁荣，我们就不可能战胜我们这一代的红色威胁。
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.
我们的整个经济是建立在计划报废的基础上的，任何一个能不动嘴唇就能阅读的人现在都应该知道这一点。
I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.
我认为事实表明，欧洲伙伴采取了非常措施帮助希腊解决问题。
This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it.
这种不受约束的消费增长速度超过了我们的经济，超过了通货膨胀，远远超出了我们的承受能力。
I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
我看到里根通过减税和控制开支扭转了这个国家的局势，我也在运用同样的原则。
I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.
我不相信涓滴经济学。一般来说，我不认为拥有最多财富的人倾向于分享财富。
Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
今天我们面对的不是政治性的思想目标，而是经济性的思想目标。
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game.
有许多经济学理论，其追求的理由并不比其智力吸引力更充分;这是一场精彩的比赛。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。