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经济
Economy
The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.
一种货币的价值最终取决于别人会给你什么——无论是在食物、燃料、资产还是劳动力方面。这在任何地方都是一个主观的决定。
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.
津巴布韦的经济和社会衰退令人震惊和震惊。那里的生活与最近的生活截然不同。每一天都是一场基本生存的斗争。
Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.
波兰是少数几个有能力实施常规货币政策的国家之一，这意味着我们必须采取行动，防止经济失衡的累积。
Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
我认为，减少对库存的重视可能会抑制商业周期，因为商业周期通常掌握在库存周期和重工业周期之中。
Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
由于当时可用的金银数量远远少于进行商业交易所需要的数量，所以货币的使用需要支付大量的金钱。
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
资本是劳动的产物，并被劳动用来辅助其进一步生产。劳动是主动的、初始的力量，因此劳动是资本的雇主。
Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.
现在，汽车行业的工资由两部分组成，一是我们所说的基本工资，另一个是生活成本，这是由自动扶梯的运行所决定的。
I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.
我是个保守派，相信减税。它们带来了更具进取精神的经济。但是我不相信你可以借更多的钱来降低税收。
I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.
我有一对夫妇带着负的分期偿还抵押贷款来买房子，房子的成本相对于他们的收入来说太高了。他们在消费房地产，而不是投资房地产。
In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.
同样，如果一个国家浪费了它的一部分财富，或失去了它的一部分贸易，它就不能保持它以前拥有的同样数量的流通媒介。
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
一千头羊在好草场上的毛，一年至少得五十马克，两千一百马克，依此类推，以千计。
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
如果我们的语言、我们的节目、我们的创作没有在新媒体中得到强有力的体现，我们国家的年轻一代将在经济和文化上被边缘化。
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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。
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。
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。
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。