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经济
Economy
The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.a
经济衰退的影响开始显现。一段时间以来，房价和房地产市场一直受到冲击，这影响着人们
What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?
现在不公平的是公司缴纳的税越来越少，这意味着你和我缴纳的税越来越多，因为我们扎根于某个地方，他们有我们的地址，对吧?
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
无限的经济增长具有一种神奇的品质，既能平息不满，又能保持特权，这一事实在自由派经济学家中并没有被忽视。
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
我对小熊队和工资的看法是，小熊队在世界职业棒球锦标赛上卖出的商品数量，将远远超过一大笔工资。
Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.
许多反能源组织几乎没有意识到现代经济对化石燃料和石化产品的广泛依赖程度。
I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.
我认为我们可以进行一些税收改革，但这并不意味着增加税收。我们应该使利率趋于平稳。我们应该消除这些漏洞。
The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.
市场的扩大创造了对加强和更有规律的供应的需求，这反过来又促使商业资本获得对生产的控制。
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.
人的平均状况是在改善还是在恶化，这取决于是人口增长快于人口增长，还是人口增长快于人口增长。
First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
首先，我们将把重点放在中小企业私有化上，其次是中小企业，然后我们将转向重工业。
Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.
只有增加国内能源资源，才能实现稳定的能源价格和增强国家安全。
We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
我们需要打破对外国石油资源的依赖，这让我们任由外国势力摆布。为此，我们应该增加国内能源生产。
Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.
然而，为了确保欧洲社会模式跟上目前必要的经济变革步伐，欧盟必须采用一种新的立法方法。
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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。
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。
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。