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经济
Economy
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.
我也深知，文学对世界上的政治纷争和经济危机的影响微乎其微，但它对人类的意义却是源远流长的。
And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.
一旦你能与每个人即时沟通，你的经济活动就会比以往任何时候都更加先进，更加流动，更加分散。
In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.
在殖民地，经济的子结构也是上层结构。原因是结果;你富有是因为你是白人，你是白人是因为你富有。
Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, since money is just another form of information.
物价或工资上涨不会引起通货膨胀;他们只报告。它们代表了一种基本的经济演讲形式，因为货币只是另一种形式的信息。
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
这是一个如何确保社会任何成员所知道的资源得到最佳利用的问题，其目的的相对重要性只有这些个人知道。
The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.
获取食物的便利对资本所有者有两方面的好处，它同时提高了利润，增加了消费品的数量。
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
但是，当他们滔滔不绝地谈论经济法时，男男女女却在挨饿。我们必须认识到经济规律不是自然制定的。它们是人类制造的。
We now have the worst of both worlds - not just inflation on the one side or stagnation on the other, but both of them together. We have a sort of stagflation situation.
我们现在面临的是两个世界中最糟糕的情况——一边是通胀，另一边是停滞，而且两者都是。我们有一种滞胀的情况。
Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad.
由于我们的经济与外国的经济密切相关，我们谁也不能对这些动乱在国内外可能造成的后果漠不关心。
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
但是，劳动力工资的上涨不会同样影响用机器快速消费生产的商品和用机器缓慢消费生产的商品。
And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
而现在，尤其是在经济形势下，仍然非常艰难。为了使我们的经济更具竞争力，我们必须继续保持活跃，继续工作，继续战斗。
Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.
地球资源丰富。我们通过货币控制来分配资源的做法已不再适用，而且对我们的生存产生反作用。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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 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。
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。