A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.
贫穷和被称为种族隔离的种族统治迫使特兰斯基安移民离开安全的土地到城市工作,然后再回来。
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
失业是等值的;自大萧条以来,通缩首次出现在我们的未来。我不管这是谁的错,这是事实。
Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
乐观是件好事。它让人们走出家门,开始创业,消费,做任何必要的事情来推动经济发展。
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
通过采取控制战略,国家的环境规划在环境质量和经济增长之间建立了一种内在的对立关系。
It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
的确,当时没有公立学校体系,原因很明显。上层阶级的财富使他们有了私人教师。
The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I’d rather go into a grocery store today than to a king’s banquet a hundred years ago.
世界在进步,资源越来越丰富。我宁愿今天去杂货店,也不愿一百年前去参加国王的宴会。
And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.
这确实让我担心,因为我们没有得到足够的退税。我认为我们真的需要研究整个领域。
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
在预算削减的今天,我们不能忘记,基础科学是信息时代科学创新和经济增长的基石。
What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.
我们应该做的是鼓励人们建立私人退休账户,帮助他们减轻社会保障体系的压力。
I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.
我赞成削减所有的预算项目。但我不想削减的项目是养老金支出,因为它影响到社会最弱势的部分。
The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.
未来资产价格走势的巨大不确定性,必然减少了在加息前改变政策的理由。
If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.
如果你像津巴布韦那样印钞票……货币购买力下降,生活水平下降,最终导致内战。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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 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。
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。