A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.
毫无疑问,目前汽车的成本是个大问题。每次你去加油站,汽油的价格就上涨。
We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
我们应该改变目前以大企业集团为主导的经济体制,建立中小企业共同发展的经济体制。
You can’t beat the market because it’s smarter than you are. Intellectually, the only task is trying to determine what the market is telling you.
你无法打败市场,因为它比你聪明。理智上,唯一的任务是试图确定市场告诉你什么。
I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.
我听到这一切,你知道,‘好吧,这是阶级斗争,这是随便什么。“不。这个国家没有一个人是靠自己致富的——没有一个人。
Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.
定价实际上是非常简单和直接的事情。顾客不会支付比产品真正价值多一分钱的钱。
During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.
在经济放缓期间,人们需要保持谨慎,但我认为同样重要的是不要陷入防御性思维的漩涡。
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。
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.
全球经济前景依然脆弱和不确定。全球经济失衡依然存在,我们必须解决这些问题,否则未来可能出现不稳定。
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
石油公司把核能看作是他们的竞争对手,这会降低他们的利润,所以他们发布了很多关于核能的虚假信息。
So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.
每个人都有一些信息。市场的功能是将这些信息聚合起来,对其进行评估,并将其纳入价格中。
You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.
我们不能简单地把更多的钱投入到同一个体系中,就能取得更好的效果,所以我们需要改革和创新教育。
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
一个只靠智慧生活的国家是幸福的;想靠耕种、挖掘、钻探来发财的,必受咒诅。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。