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经济
Economy
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
我担心，我们真正的动机是石油和我们自己摇摇欲坠的经济;关于摧毁基地组织的失败和复仇。
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
尽管大多数产品很快就会变得太贵而难以购买，但在如何解决这些问题的书籍销售方面，将会有一个蓬勃发展的市场。
The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.
财政政策的伟大之处在于，它具有直接影响，不需要你束缚未来政策制定者的手脚。
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
如今的股市实际上讨厌科技股，主要上市科技公司的市盈率处于历史低位就说明了这一点。
What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.
从经济产出来看，世界上最富有的国家似乎是我们工作最努力的国家，这一点似乎非同寻常。
We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
我们将信守社会保障的承诺，采取负责任的步骤来加强它，而不是把它交给华尔街。
It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.
是时候创建一个经济增长代码了，其目的是修复和增长经济，而不是重新分配巨额财富。
If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.
如果该计划因经济衰退而再次偏离轨道，这不应成为实施更多紧缩措施的借口。
Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.
社会保障并不难解决。医疗保险，这是房间里的大猩猩，你必须把它全部放在桌子上。
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
一个世纪以前，石油——我们称之为石油——只是一种不为人知的商品;今天，水对人类的生存几乎和水一样重要。
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
卡车、易货交易和用一种东西交换另一种东西的倾向对所有人来说都是普遍的，在任何其他动物种族中都找不到这种倾向。
I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.
我认为，在工资最低的国家倾倒大量有毒废物背后的经济逻辑是无可挑剔的，我们应该正视这一点。
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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。
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。
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。
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 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。