A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
罗斯福上任时，我大体上赞成他的计划。我认为一个经济体系应该为人民服务，而不是为人民服务。
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
税收改革是把过去已经征税的东西的税减了，把以前没有征税的东西的税加了。
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
在所有市场结构问题中，中心地位和竞争之间的紧张关系可能是最古老的。
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
以生产为目标，北美工业以流水线为主导，标准化为大众消费。
To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
在欧盟，这意味着有相同的规则……为了经济，为了社会生活，团结在大多数欧洲国家。
In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
尽管有这么多噪音，顾客们仍然在北美购买，而且他们真的，真的在国际上购买。
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
战争确实不会导致经济繁荣，至少不会直接导致经济繁荣，因为财富的增长永远不会源于商品的毁灭。
Thinking precisely and systematically about something as complex and irregular as a modern economy is very difficult, maybe impossible.
精确而系统地思考像现代经济这样复杂而不规则的东西是非常困难的，甚至是不可能的。
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between scarce resources and ends which have alternative uses.
经济学是一门研究人类行为的科学，其研究对象是稀缺资源与具有替代用途的目的之间的关系。
Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
让我们面对现实:在当今世界，金钱和经济实力仍然比你所代表的人数更有说服力。
I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.
我认为，数以百万计的人能够重新协商他们的抵押贷款，这样他们就能支付更低的利率，他们的境况会更好。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。