A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
全球化假定经济持续增长。否则，这一进程将失去其经济利益和政治支持。
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.
共同基金的创立是为了让投资变得容易，这样消费者就不必为挑选个股而烦恼。
The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.
人们从所有公民机构获得的自由，从根本上说，来自于市场体系的成功。
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
我们必须在一个只靠短期利润驱动的全球市场和一个有人情味的市场之间做出选择。
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
企业的利润总是取决于利率:利率越高，要求的利润率就越高。
It is a bad thing that many from being rich should become poor; for men of ruined fortunes are sure to stir up revolutions.
许多人从富有变成贫穷，这是一件坏事;因为家破人亡的人一定会引起革命。
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
全球化制度促进自由市场作为组织国际关系的有力工具。
I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.
我的意思是，这个国家建立在自由企业的基础上。有好的一面，也有不好的一面。
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
平衡名义预算不会解决任何问题，而试图实现这种虚假的平衡将会带来很多麻烦。
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
在伸张正义方面的拖延往往会降低进行投资的速度，使投资者感到沮丧。
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
本世纪的两个决定性问题都是全球性的，但都是地方性的:全球水资源危机和资源繁荣。
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
资本是死劳动力，就像吸血鬼一样，只有吸吮活劳动力才能生存，而且活得越多，吸吮的劳动力就越多。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。