A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.
如果房价可能进一步下跌，那么买房就没有多大意义;没有人想抓住掉下来的刀。
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
第二次世界大战以人类历史上最伟大的公私工业合作之一结束了大萧条。
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
这个问题已经席卷了几个世纪，迟早要与之斗争的是人民与银行之间的斗争。
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
然而，我认为，只要我们目前的经济和国家制度继续下去，科学研究就没有什么可怕的。
We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.
我们需要深入思考，我们是否能够支撑那些不仅大到不能倒，而且可能大到无法纾困的银行。
If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.
从历史上看，创造增长和财富的是创新和投资，以及规模的扩大——更多的客户。
I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
我当然不希望我们的国家陷入债务违约，但与此同时，我非常担心我们目前的债务问题。
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
贸易逆差就是资本盈余，永远不要认为资本盈余对我们国家是件坏事。
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
气候、经济形势、不断上升的出生率;这些都没有给我带来太多的希望或理由去乐观。
You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
不加区别的信贷不能刺激真正的经济增长。你只能通过合理配置的长期投资来推动它。
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
社会保障的未来越来越糟，我们每推迟一年的改革就会增加我们推给孩子们的成本。
Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
好吧，我并不是想摆脱工会，但我要说的是，在今天的经济中，工会似乎是一个过时的概念。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。