A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.
投资银行通过其投资银行业务破产，商业银行通过其商业银行业务破产。
I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.
我致力于通过保护中小型家庭农场的独特利益来加强我国的农业经济，使它们能够继续经营下去。
Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.
我们的欧元区成员国身份是货币稳定的保证，并为可持续增长创造了合适的条件。我们加入欧元区是唯一的选择。
We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.
我们正积极致力于加入世贸组织。我们仍然有几个国家需要同我们达成协议，而且很可能将在明年达成协议。
One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.
投资股市的好处之一就是你可以了解经济的方方面面。它是你通向广阔世界的窗口。
And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.
当然，很明显，就像全球变暖这样的问题，必须在企业方面采取一些行动，必须有一些授权或立法。
A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.
一个尽可能开放的市场是一个成功经济的前提，一个成功的经济是能够支付社会保障的前提。
The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.
如果学生们想回来拿着专业学位工作，硅谷的经济就需要增长。我们需要发展更多，创造更多的机会。
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
没有任何一项投资能像教育投资那样产生如此巨大的回报。受过教育的劳动力是每个社区的基础，也是每个经济体的未来。
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
社会制度僵化，生产力不断发展，生产力量与生产社会条件发生冲突。
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
许多所谓的投资实际上只不过是合并和收购，当然合并和收购通常伴随着规模的缩小。
The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.
我们今天面临的严峻现实是，如果不进行劳动力改革，工人们将在激烈的全球经济竞争中既得不到收入，也得不到工作。
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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。
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 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。
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。