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经济
Economy
A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.
一个糟糕的投资是追求数量而不是质量。如果你想小心你的钱包，尤其是现在的经济形势，你必须选择主食。
I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
我认为市场驱动的经济体系是最有生产力的体系，但是要想在世界上发挥作用，你还必须有社会投资。
The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.
为了使税法更加公平和简单，消除遗产税对经济的有害拖累，现在应该彻底和永久地废除遗产税。
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
实体法和程序法有利于并保护房东不受佃户的影响，债权人不受债务人的影响，放贷人不受借款人的影响，穷人很少受到优待。
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.
事实表明，与古典国民经济迄今教给我们的一切相反，在经济生活中起主导作用的不是生产者，而是消费者。
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
现在，有秩序和文明的幻觉，但这个国家存在着巨大的经济紧张，教育体系不断受到侵蚀。
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
公众已经对社会保障和医疗保险为老年人提供养老的能力失去了信心。他们对银行体系和传统医疗保险失去了信心。
And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.
我们国家有丰富的自然能源资源。我们没有充分利用它们，我们可以以一种清洁的方式燃烧煤炭;我们可以改进电网。
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.
我一直说，只有一件事能使我们的国家衰落，那就是我们在食品和能源方面对外国的依赖。农业是我们经济的支柱。
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
所有这些观点都得出了同样的结论，那就是我们的全球经济已经失控，而且与市场经济学的基本原则背道而驰。
We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.
我们应该加强替代燃料的开发，利用可再生资源，比如用玉米和糖生产乙醇，或者用大豆生产生物柴油。
I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.
我还认为，卡特里娜飓风确实暴露了我们能源供应系统的弱点，凸显了这个国家对墨西哥湾沿岸能源资源的依赖。
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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。
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。
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。