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经济
Economy
In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.
这样，银行对其票据的使用收取的费用——利息——就是对社会所有成员征收的一种持续的、普遍的税。
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.
为了我们的环境、经济和国家的利益，我强烈要求支持密西西比河上游的水闸和大坝工程。
There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
有一个国家能够理解经济中的需求。该国应利用价格作为执行这一谅解的工具。
Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.
听着，我希望经济增长只有一个方向。它不是。经济出现了衰退。它们是痛苦的，有害的，会伤害到家庭。
Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.
贸易只不过是多余之物的交换;例如:我把我的，我能省下的，给你的，我想要的，你也能省下。
A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
金本位并不意味着人们每天购买的商品和服务价格稳定，它意味着黄金价格本身的稳定。
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
我自己在第三世界的经验是，即使人们开始赚更多的钱，生活和住房成本的增长速度往往快于工资的增长速度。
And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.
因此，房利美为投资者带来了非常强劲的业绩，无论是在利率高企时期，还是在利率低企时期，无论是在经济衰退时期，还是在经济繁荣时期。
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
在我们的社会中，所有人都被要求有价值，并相信他们有价值，这不仅是一种体面的衡量标准;这在经济上是合理的。
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。
The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.
抑制住房需求的最关键因素是，自有住房不再像过去那样被视为股权价值的长期累积。
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.
正如许多人所记得的那样，一位受人尊敬的陆军经济学家向举报人提起诉讼，指控陆军使用错误的数据为开闸和扩建大坝辩护。
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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。
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。
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 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。
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。