A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.
互联网提供了获取资源的途径,因此控制这些资源的人有责任确保经济引擎完好无损。
We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.
我们有如此多的人退休,以至于我们没有足够的人向这个系统付费,来为那些领取福利的人提供福利。
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
我相信,我们可以通过更好地监管保险,并为医疗服务创造有意义的竞争,来激励更普遍的、负担得起的医疗保健。
Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.
今天,所有这些能源商品也有买家和卖家,就像食品和许多其他商品也有买家和卖家一样。
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
想象一下这样一个经济体:人们可以成为艺术家、摄影师或作家,而不用担心为了获得医疗保险而保住自己的日常工作。
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.
随着收入的增加,食品支出所占比重下降。由此产生的支出变化影响到需求格局和就业结构。
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
我们已经留出数千万英亩的西北森林作为永久用地。失业率不是上升了,而是下降了。经济增长了。
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
如果没有任何短期的共同用途来表示所有令人满意的东西,或满足人类需要的东西,我们可以用“货物”一词来表示。
But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.
但欧盟层面的有效监管可以为实现我们提高竞争力、就业和增长的共同目标做出巨大贡献。
All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.
在经济困难时期,由于每个人都在为有限的联邦资金而乱花钱,环境往往成为国会削减开支的主要因素。
Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.
我们一次又一次地认识到,实现增长和创造就业的最佳途径是让辛勤工作的人们把更多的钱放在自己的口袋里。
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
普及教育不仅是道义上的必要,而且是经济上的必要,为使更多的国家自给自足和自力更生铺平道路。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
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。