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经济
Economy
Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.
里根的做法将实现保守派的一个基本目标:事情基本上保持不变。富人还是富人,穷人还是穷人,甚至更穷一点。
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.
其次,我不认为华尔街在做它应该做的事情,即使在过去两年可耻的表现之后。他们没有配置资本。
To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.
老实说,这只是简单的经济问题。如果他们想进入自行车行业,赞助商需要知道他们资助的车队是干净的,否则风险就太大了。
Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.
自从进入国会以来,我一直主张增加自然科学研究的资源,特别是能源部科学办公室的资源。
I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
我一直在我的论文和演讲中说,我将继续逐步取消股本税和特许经营税。
Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.
印出来的每一美元都不应该代表私人银行家的债务。它应该代表对共同利益的投资潜力,代表我们国家的共同需要。
We ought to define a man’s income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.
我们应该把一个人的收入定义为他在一周内所能消费的最大价值,并且仍然期望在一周结束时和开始时一样富裕。
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.
在这里,我们谈论的是经济发展,关于在各种项目上投资数十亿美元,我可以看到,人们现在并不需要数十亿美元。
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
作者认为,纳税的是消费者,因此社会秩序中的每一个个体都应该得到无限的机会来充分利用自己。
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
只要指出军备对一个国家的经济、社会和智力资源以及对其预算和税收所造成的巨大负担就够了。
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.
当我问他这是什么意思时,他回答说,自由包括不受阻碍地获得财富的权利,使用自己的能力,不管别人付出什么代价,赢得晋升的权利。
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.
我个人认为,在我们的经济起飞之前,我们不应该增加税收或削减开支,无论是哪一个。我会付更多的钱,但这解决不了问题。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。