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经济
Economy
It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.
过去一直很艰难，但今天我们正处于历史上从未有过的痛苦之中。很明显，最近市场正在寻找底部。
In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
在资源有限的时期，我们将不得不转移重点。但不一定是从传统的政治官员到传统的经济官员。
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
第一个也是最乐观的回应是完全理性预期计量经济学。理性预期均衡是一个似然函数。最大化。
Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.
我们哈德逊河谷的农业经济继续面临着历史上最低的价格和生产者收入，以及由于天气和其他灾害造成的损失。
The risk of a global crisis caused by a fall in Europe has decreased, but not totally solved. It has become clear that Europe will not allow Greece to go bankrupt.
欧洲经济下滑引发全球危机的风险有所降低，但尚未完全解决。很明显，欧洲不会允许希腊破产。
That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.
原因是房价只会上涨。现在，他们从来没有在全国范围内下降，因为我们一直在跟踪这个。
We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.
我们在全国范围内经历了创纪录的高温和创纪录的高能源价格，我们在过去看到了极端气温造成的危险影响。
Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.
那些依靠本地和网络广播信号发展业务的付费电视公司，应该为获得这些高价值节目支付合理的价格。
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
在钢铁工业中，公司一般接受集体谈判，并与工业组织委员会谈判工资协定。
If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.
如果一名球员证明了他是最好的，而球队决定，即使如此，我们也不会像在其他任何行业那样给他发工资，他应该可以去其他地方踢球。
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
诚实地说，唯一的财富分配是劳动的产物，它将通过更平等地分配人类的生产能力而实现。
Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.
商品从低价格点到高价格点的变动是对价格差异的反应，这种变动趋向于消除价格差异而停止。
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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。
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 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。
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。