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经济
Economy
What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.
我们试图做的是看看所有这些资源，然后说，好吧，他们会更好地花在宣传和信息上，还是我们能从这些资源中节省下来，并把它们重新用于节省。
After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.
毕竟，被高估的美元让我们有能力以更低的价格购买外国商品。如果美元更具竞争力，现有的出口额将带来更多的日元和欧元。
In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.
过了一段时间，考伯兄弟把他们的印刷机从伦敦搬到了曼彻斯特。他们在那里找到了技术娴熟、精力充沛的工人，准备把他们的计划付诸实施。
If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.
如果你打算对小企业增税，你就会减缓我们降低失业率的速度。所以我认为这是一个严重的错误;增税时机不对。
It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn't happen.
当我进入斯诺克的时候，感觉棒极了，当时烟草公司在斯诺克上砸了很多钱，甚至当他们退出的时候，我们也认为其他人会因为电视的曝光而加入。但这并没有发生。
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
价格之所以重要，并不是因为人们认为钱是最重要的，而是因为在一个必须协调零散知识的庞大社会中，价格是一个快速而有效的信息传递渠道。
Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.
我认为，只要人们还在谈论刺激计划，美联储就会考虑降息，因为货币政策是更好的选择，因为你可以随时启动或关闭货币政策。
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
去掉广告，使个人或公司不能宣传其产品及其优点，整个社会和经济就会发生变化。广告的敌人就是自由的敌人。
The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
问题是，我不相信大部分已经做过的事情。在平庸中投入的大量金钱和想象力是惊人的，我发现这从根本上是对一个人的冒犯。
It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.
正是经济增长的潜力为各国的发展提供了基础，为人民带来了基本的商品和服务，如饮用水和卫生保健设施。
You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others.
你们都知道蒸汽机的作用是多么强大和多样;有了他们，工业才真正开始了伟大的发展，这是我们这个世纪的特点。
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.
值表示两个对象之间相互存在的关系，它所表示的精确关系是一个对象的数量，可以用给定的另一个对象的数量来交换这个对象的数量。
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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。
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。
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。
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 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。