A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.
人们理所当然地希望我们的政治领导人——从各个方面——集中精力，将银行业危机对就业、生活水平和储蓄造成的损害降至最低。
There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.
总是会有经济压力来制造命中目标，识别命中目标，然后利用命中目标。你会尽可能多地利用它们。
The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities, a thousand towns; the weeds will overrun the fields of millions of farms if [tariff protection] is taken away.
在一百个城市，一千个城镇的街道上，将长出青草;如果取消(关税保护)，数以百万计的农田将长满杂草。
If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.
如果你所在的行业有大量的投资，是否引入替代供应并不重要。你仍然在这个行业亏损。
Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.
议长先生，高企的天然气价格和夏季汽油价格的飙升强烈地提醒我们，实现能源独立的道路是漫长而艰难的。
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.
我在这一时期的大部分工作是探索经济模型的逻辑，但也试图将模型与日常观察相协调。
Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.
与已婚夫妇、未婚男性和白人相比，社会保障在未婚女性和少数族裔退休总收入中所占的比例要大得多。
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
上世纪中叶的自由贸易运动是对这些新情况以及适应这些新情况的必要性的第一次有意识的认识。
There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
我们所拥有的实际资源中没有任何内在的理由说明，为什么我们不能在今后两、三年内迅速进入真正充分就业的状态。
We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'
我们从来都不是那种四处走动，面对那些经济上成功的人，然后说‘我们恨你’的人。我们羡慕你做得这么好。”
I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.
我被告知在多伦多拍摄可以省钱，因为有税收优惠，拍摄人员更便宜，但是我在底线上省下的钱，我在其他方面损失了上百万。
We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.
我们需要有一个强大的经济，能够创造就业机会，也能够产生我们在国内外保卫国家所需要的收入。
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。
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 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。
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。
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。