A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.
复苏法案正在发挥作用，但它将继续发挥作用。这不是结束。今年夏天将会发生很多事情。即使在夏天之后，这一行为还会带来更多的好处。
Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
尽管很难(如果不是不可能的话)用美元来衡量大自然提供的众多服务的价值，但把它们排除在经济计算之外意味着它们常常被忽视。
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
我们现在知道，在任何规模的现代战争中，任何一方都不可能获得经济利益。无论输赢，只有浪费和毁灭。
They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.
他们一直在延长失业救济，直到人们害怕出去找工作，因为这份工作的工资不像失业救济那么高。
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.
但最终这是一个进入的问题:进入油田是石油公司的首要任务。我们预计未来几年供应将大幅增加。
Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.
煤炭研究和开发为国家提供了巨大的利益，并通过从扩大的经济活动中回流到财政部的税收为自己支付了许多倍。
In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.
然而，在当今的全球经济中，把优秀的标准提高得更高是很重要的。今天的学生必须准备好在国际水平上进行有效的竞争。
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
当然，女性在家庭中的劳动能使男性创造更多的财富;从这个意义上说，女性是社会的经济因素。但是马也是。
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
我们越早开始使用替代能源，越早认识到化石燃料会让我们的国家更不安全，让我们的星球更危险，我们的境况就会越好。
We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.
我们认为，经济学不一定非得是一场零和游戏;只要拥有成功的工具，这对每个参与者来说都是一个双赢的提议。
Economics as a positive science is a body of tentatively accepted generalizations about economic phenomena that can be used to predict the consequences of changes in circumstances.
经济学作为一门实证科学，是对经济现象的一种暂时被接受的概括，可以用来预测环境变化的后果。
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
我们所生活的经济社会的突出缺点是没有提供充分就业，以及武断和不公平地分配财富和收入。
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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。
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。
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。