A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.
在正在进行的全球化进程下,主要是为少数国家和发展中心以及强大的跨国公司创造了优势。
We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to epand our economy.
我们可以用我们自己的例子来证明,欧盟的自由,包括其他欧盟国家公民来这里工作的自由,是如何使我们能够发展我们的经济的。
Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.
欧洲应该坚持开放经济,坚持竞争,拒绝保护主义。从长远来看,保护非竞争性产业不会挽救一个就业岗位。
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
支出和教育效果之间没有特别的关系。实际上,大部分教育支出都花在了工资上,而工资是根据政治力量来分配的。
There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.
一个有经济实力的女性和她所做的投资之间显然存在关联。这导致了她改善社区的社会和道德良知。
Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.
就业机会正在从经济的各个领域消失,从工程到卫生保健工作者,迫使成千上万的家庭失业和从事低收入工作。
Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.
艰难时期总是滋生本土主义情绪和闭关自守的政策。但就高技能移民而言,这些政策将导致经济停滞。
Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.
在任何时候,生产率和生产率增长都必须是首要的经济考虑因素,而不是最后一个。这是技术创新、就业和财富的源泉。
The branch of economics dealing with how to enrich a new nation was actually forbidden by the courts, on the grounds that no university could pay for the damage its teachers did.
实际上,法院禁止经济学的一个分支研究如何使一个新国家富裕起来,理由是没有一所大学能够赔偿其教师所造成的损失。
Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
每个人都认为他们会把握市场时机,他们会大幅调整市场,然后在底部买进。事实是没有人擅长这件事。
You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.
你知道,我们面临着财政危机。除非我们采取行动,而且是有意为之,否则我们无法让我们的孩子拥有我们所拥有的一切。就是这么简单。
The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.
预算没有为重要的国内项目提供足够的资金,促进减税,损害其他优先事项,也无助于整顿我们国家的财政秩序。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。