A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
环境质量得到了极大的改善，而经济活动的增长则是由于从汽油中除去铅这一简单的权宜之计- -使铅无法进入环境。
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
由于马尔萨斯人口理论的发明，法律的整个作用倾向于增加食品消费者的数量，减少生产者的数量。
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
我们许多人都对医疗费用的飞涨感到震惊，包括病人，他们是消费者。然而，医疗事故并不是这些费用增加的原因。
When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.
当你开始谈论病人的权利法案和所有的福利时，人们都同意。他们不知道的是你将如何支付。
High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
高油价正在侵蚀消费者的可支配收入，并可能导致经济进一步下滑，尤其是对那些依靠汽油和柴油维持生计的人来说。
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
新的全球企业结构更令人担忧的特点是，它们有能力将业务转移到海外成本更低的地方，从而摧毁国内劳动力市场。
Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.
农民和以土地为生的人们发现生存是不可能的。所以第一步就是离开那个地方。到有机会的城市来。
The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
劳动力的自然价格是使劳动者彼此生存和延续其种族而不增加或减少所必需的价格。
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
只要我们的人民被可控制的社会经济力量所挟持，我们就不能对贫穷的所有方面和后果的破坏无动于衷。
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.
虽然电视在理论上和技术上是可行的，但在商业和财政上我认为它是不可能的，我们不需要浪费时间去梦想它的发展。
The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.
好消息是，无论是从长期来看，还是在向更具竞争力的美元过渡期间，全球市场上有竞争力的美元与国内强势美元都是相容的。
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
实体企业——以及依赖它们的社区——无法继续承受不公平的销售税负担，而它们的在线竞争对手实际上可以免除销售税。
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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。
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。
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 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。
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。