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经济
Economy
In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.
为了实现最佳的经济增长,国会必须坚持理智的支出指导方针,同时推行明智的政策,致力于促进企业增长和创造就业。
But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.
但如果你观察那些想要分享更多收益的团队,你会发现他们并没有太多可谈的。他们已经很久没有对自己的团队进行任何认真的投资了。
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
这些是跨国公司,比如通用汽车和雀巢;这些大型工业集团在货币规模上的影响力,远远超过埃及等大国。
So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.
因此,我们的重点必须放在我们能够控制的事情上,也就是采取必要的措施,与国会合作,确保我们的经济增长,创造就业机会。
In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
总而言之,我们认为能源是理所当然的,假设我们按下开关,灯就会亮起来,假设我们的汽车总是有充足的廉价燃料。
This quarter's results, a robust innovation pipeline, and good progress on the Gillette integration, give us the confidence to raise the earnings outlook for the fiscal year.
本季度的业绩、强劲的创新渠道以及吉列整合的良好进展,让我们有信心提高本财年的盈利前景。
I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.
我赞成废除所有的社会保险、医疗保险和遗产税。取而代之的是,我们应该建立一个简单的所得税体系,完全没有扣减或抵免。
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
全国人民不了解我们的银行和货币体系已经足够好了,因为如果他们了解的话,我相信明天上午之前就会有一场革命。
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
此外,由于一个伟大、勤劳和繁荣的社会在资本家和劳动者周围的存在,资本和劳动也有一种不劳而获的增值。
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
央行就政策可能如何演变向公众提供的指引越多,市场参与者做出适当推断的可能性就越大。
If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
如果你有一个严格控制的经济,被无限的保护与世界隔绝,没有人有任何动力去提高生产率和带来新想法。
Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.
现在有两到三支球队在他们的前景上非常道德,他们已经打开了经济效益,这可能将是一个转折点,在体育。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。