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经济
Economy
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
如此普遍提倡的不受限制的竞争并没有给我们留下优胜劣汰的机会。寡廉鲜耻者积累财富最成功。
Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?
是否存在这样一个临界点，当我们到达临界点时，所有这些经济、文化和道德上的问题都将我们带入一个无法摆脱的死亡漩涡?
I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
我担心，由于去杠杆化可能是非常痛苦的——这取决于它们是如何管理的——因此，这些经济体的另一段下行走势将导致社会动荡。
It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
可以说，雇主的理想是有生产而没有雇员，雇员的理想是有收入而没有工作。
Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.
我们的斗争是确定收入的来源和获得资金的手段。没有资金，所有的计划和研究都不能帮助我们。
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.
除非贸易逆差缩小，否则贸易逆差与支付给外国人的利息和股息的总和将以前所未有的速度增长。
If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.
如果国会不提高税收，你就不可能在不放弃部分、甚至全部保障福利支票的情况下获得私人投资账户。
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
军国主义与民族主义的经济孤立主义并驾齐驱，在国际主义的前进道路上为维护主权国家而斗争。
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
从经济上看，不公平的贸易从长远来看对任何人都没有好处，因为较贫穷的国家将会血本无归，什么也生产不出来。
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
我认为国际经济和全球市场有很多优点，但它们还不够，因为市场不考虑社会需求。
The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.
事实是，这是一个充满活力的经济，在这个充满活力的经济中，你有很多工作机会增加，但也有工作机会减少。
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
因为世界正处于经济衰退之中，而自这场闹剧发生以来，经济衰退进一步恶化，我们的国家将承担所有这些后果的负担。
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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。
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。
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。
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 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。